1914 Star (CAPT.E.N.DRURY-LOWE. NOTTS:&DERBY.R.); British War Medal (CAPT.E.N.DRURY.LOWE.); Victory Medal (CAPT.E.N.DRURY.LOWE.) - with original framed photograph of the recipient along with his baptismal and confirmation card and a 1904 dated letter in French on a Royal College of Art letterhead.
An Old Etonian, Edward Nathaniel Drury Lowe was born in Spondon Derbyshire in 1888. Having been commissioned into the 2/Notts & Derby Regiment (Sherwood Forresters) he entered France on 20 September 1914 and was, after the elapse of only four weeks, taken Prisoner of War at Le Touquet on 24 October 1914.
Having been held at Crefeld - a very well run and civilised camp for officers. He was released to Holland on 11.2.1918 and repatriated to England thereafter. Intriguingly, his name appears on the Exonerated Officers List. The self-portrait was framed by an art dealer in Den Haag, Holland and one can't but wonder if Drury Lowe had this done while he was there en route to England.
According to the 1939 Register Drury Lowe was the Proprietor of an Art and Print Dealership living at 75 Woodcote Grove Road Coulsdon.
He passed away in 1948.
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