NOEL REGINALD LOWDER (1903-1907 : 28), Second Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was the younger son of Mr W H Lowder of Paget Road, Wolverhampton.  During his time here he was known as an industrious and highly capable boy, and when he left he became a student teacher in Birmingham.  Hence he passed into the Civil Service and, after holding posts at Hull and Liverpool, was appointed to the Custom House, London.  He made several applications for permission to join the forces but was each time refused, so eventually he resigned and joined the Artists Rifles.  Easter 1916, found him in France and the following February he received his commission.  Two months later he and some other officers were observed to have broken through the German lines, and no more was seen of them.  Unhappily nothing has since been heard to qualify the official announcement issued on May 3rd, that Lowder was missing.