Harry John Lowe was born in 1881 in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight; the son of George and Frances (née Foster) Lowe, of 1 Castillia, Western Road, Shanklin.

The 1891 census had the family living at Western Road, Shanklin, and in 1901 at 2 Castillia, Western Road, Shanklin.

In 1905 Harry married Ada Kingswell at the Wesleyan Chapel, Garfield Road in Ryde, Isle of Wight, and they subsequently set up home at number 2, Castillia, Western Road, Shanklin. 

Harry was a private serving in the 26th Field Ambulance of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) when he was listed as "Missing in Action, Presumed Killed" on the 23rd of October 1916. He was 35-years-old. 

The Isle of Wight County Press, dated the 4th of November 1916, stated:

"Unofficial news has been received to the effect that Pte. Harry Lowe, RAMC, of Western Road, has been killed on the Western front, by shell explosion.

"The news was conveyed to Shanklin in a letter written by Pte. F. Boynton, also of the RAMC, to his mother, in which he states that on Oct. 24th Pte. Lowe, in company with three other ambulance men, were engaged in bringing in a wounded man on a stretcher when a shell exploded near them. The explosion killed the wounded man and three of the ambulance men, including Lowe, the remaining man being wounded. Pte. Lowe leaves a widow and three little children, for whom the greatest sympathy is felt."

Harry's body was never recovered or positively identified, so he is therefore commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Thiepval Memorial to The Missing in France.

Harry is also remembered on Panel 8 of the Isle of Wight County Memorial at Carisbrooke Castle and the Shanklin War Memorial, as well as the Shanklin Methodist Church War Memorial, Shanklin St. Blasius' Church Scroll of Remembrance, Shanklin St. Blasius' Church Scroll of Remembrance and the Shanklin St. Paul's Church War Memorial.