About: Alf Lowe

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Alfred Raymond Lowe, GC (born 14 June 1931) is a British recipient of the George Cross. Lowe joined the Royal Navy as a boy seaman in January 1947. After training at HMS Ganges he joined the crew of the aircraft carrier Illustrious. On 17 October 1948, when aged 17, a boat he was on sank and Lowe risked his life to rescue a drowning midshipman. For his actions in the disaster, which led to 29 deaths, including that of the midshipman, Lowe was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving. Lowe later served as a radio operator and diver and saw action in the Korean War aboard HMS Concord, receiving a mention in despatches. Lowe retired from the navy in 1959 as a petty officer. He later worked as a salesman in England and New Zealand. Lowe took up the offer, made to all living Albert Medal recipie

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Alfred Raymond Lowe, GC (born 14 June 1931) is a British recipient of the George Cross. Lowe joined the Royal Navy as a boy seaman in January 1947. After training at HMS Ganges he joined the crew of the aircraft carrier Illustrious. On 17 October 1948, when aged 17, a boat he was on sank and Lowe risked his life to rescue a drowning midshipman. For his actions in the disaster, which led to 29 deaths, including that of the midshipman, Lowe was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving. Lowe later served as a radio operator and diver and saw action in the Korean War aboard HMS Concord, receiving a mention in despatches. Lowe retired from the navy in 1959 as a petty officer. He later worked as a salesman in England and New Zealand. Lowe took up the offer, made to all living Albert Medal recipients in 1971, to receive the George Cross in addition to the original medal. He now lives in New Zealand. (en)
dbo:militaryBranch
dbo:serviceEndYear
  • 1959-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:serviceStartYear
  • 1947-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 71284564 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 8418 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1112995056 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthDate
  • 1931-06-14 (xsd:date)
dbp:branch
dbp:date
  • 1949-02-08 (xsd:date)
dbp:issue
  • 38534 (xsd:integer)
dbp:name
  • Alfred Raymond Lowe (en)
dbp:page
  • 699 (xsd:integer)
dbp:serviceyears
  • 1947 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Alfred Raymond Lowe, GC (born 14 June 1931) is a British recipient of the George Cross. Lowe joined the Royal Navy as a boy seaman in January 1947. After training at HMS Ganges he joined the crew of the aircraft carrier Illustrious. On 17 October 1948, when aged 17, a boat he was on sank and Lowe risked his life to rescue a drowning midshipman. For his actions in the disaster, which led to 29 deaths, including that of the midshipman, Lowe was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving. Lowe later served as a radio operator and diver and saw action in the Korean War aboard HMS Concord, receiving a mention in despatches. Lowe retired from the navy in 1959 as a petty officer. He later worked as a salesman in England and New Zealand. Lowe took up the offer, made to all living Albert Medal recipie (en)
rdfs:label
  • Alf Lowe (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Alfred Raymond Lowe (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License