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Penninah,
Alexander Ellice was the eldest son of Major Edward Charles Ellice of Invergarry and Glenquoich, and of Margaret Georgina Ellice. His father, who was formerly a Captain in the Grenadier Guards, and served in Lovat's Scouts in South Africa, rejoined the Grenadier Guards at the beginning of the war, and was appoinrted as Major to command the Guards Entrenching Battalion in France.
He was in the School from 1908 to 1912, and had his cap in 1912. On leaving Rugby he went to France to learn the language and entered a Chartered Accountant's Office in Paris. e was afterwards transferred to the London Ofice and passed and Examination for Chartered Accountants.
On the outbreak of war he joined the Cameron Highlanders and went to the front in May 1915. InSeptember, 1915, he was wounded at Loos, but returned to the Front in February 1916. He took part in the Battle of the Somme and went through the attack on Delville Wood. He was wounded by a shell at Eaucourt l'Abbaye on October 15th, and died of his wounds on October 18th, 1916. Age 21.
Cameron of Lochiel, who raised the 5th Cameron Highlanders and commanded them to begin with, wrote:-
"I got to know Sandy very well. He was just the typical example of all a boy should be. Quiet and shy and somewhat reserved, yet always perfectly at his ease and at home with everyone: keen and hard working with an extraordinarily high sense of duty. He had also an enormous fund of humour, which only came out among those who knew him well, and was always cheerful. I cannot tell you how I feel about his death. All his men were absolutely devoted to him. To me he is the last of my old officers that I really knew and cared for."

Hi Cas,
There are 3 S. Lowe at Kew but no S.J. Lowe, the document references are WO339/80017, WO339/105568, WO339/139382 but no guarantee's that any of them are your relative. Officers papers are all supposed to be there but suprise suprise they most definetely are not and some that are there have been weeded over the years, I have only found about 60% of the officers that I have looked for.
Bloody frustrating isn't it, can you tell us anymore, any awards won, when he died etc.
As Ady has said the National Roll needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, especially in the case of a casualty.

Andy

Pam,
Glad that we have been able to help you on this. Send me your e-mail address in a message and I will get this lot over to you.

Andy

Hi Pam,
I trust that you had a good holiday??
Re these Territorial Battalions, each Regiment had it's own Record Office which can be seen on the MIC's, i.e.
A = Cork Record Office, responsible for the Royal Irish Regiment, Connaught Rangers, Munster Fusiliers & Leinster Regiment
B = Dublin Record Office, responsible for Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Irish Fusiliers & Royal Irish Rifles
C = Exeter Record Office, responsible for D.C.L.I., Wiltshire Regiment, Hampshire Regiment, Dorset Regiment, Somerset Light Infantry & Devon Regiment.
D = Hamilton Record Office, responsible for the Royal Scots, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Scottish Rifles, H.L.I. & K.O.S.B.
E = Hounslow Record Office, responsible for Queens Regiment, Middlesex Regiment, East Surrey Regiment, Royal Sussex Regiment, East Kent Regiment, Royal West Kent Regiment & Cyclist Corps.

These can be seen on the MIC's as code letters denoting what Record Office was responsible for their records.
In your MIC's case it is TP which denoted the London Record Office whereas the M code letter would denote the Winchester Record Office which were responsible for the K.R.R.C. & R.B.

These seven Territorial Battalions, the City of London Territorial Association agreed to assume responsibility for their administration, so all records where kept by the London Record Office.
Hope this all makes a bit of sense, clear as mud as they say.

Andy