Henry Cooke LOWRY

Captain Henry Cooke Lowry MRCVS born in September 1883, was the only son of James Lowry J.P. of Magheramorne, County Antrim, Ireland.

He was educated at the Methodist College, Belfast and Larne Grammar School. He attended Dublin Veterinary College for three years before enrolling at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in 1909 to sit the final year of the course. He qualified MRCVS in December 1910.

In March 1911, he received a commission as a Lieutenant (on probation) in the Army Veterinary Corps but subsequently left the army. In February 1913, he joined the Colonial Veterinary Service and served as a Veterinarian Officer in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, when war broke out.

As a member of the Special Reserve of Officers, he was recalled to the Army Veterinary Corps. He took part in the landings at Gallipoli and served there throughout the campaign., during which he had a narrow escape when a box he was sitting on was shot from under him by a shell. The following day, he received a slight bullet wound in the arm, but not sufficient to interfere with duty. He was posted to Mesopotamia in early 1916, and he was 32 when he died there on 11 July 1916.

Captain James Henry Cooke Lowry was buried in Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.

Captain Lowrey’s death was reported in the Veterinary Record on 29 July 1916, and a brief history of his career was recorded in the Veterinary Journal.