nat roll of the great war

[cas21]

hi all
I'm totally baffled! I have  a subscription to a*****y but cant get any of my grandfathers military records up. I do know abit about him but when I tried to search the 'national roll of the great was' there are no records!! My grandfather was Colonel sydney joseph LOWE born 1880 in Islington London. I do recall I've seen a record for sidney (spelt with the i instead of the y). But cant get anything up.
He served with the Royal Fusiliers and went from
sandhurst,1899, straight to the boer war.
Any help would be grateful

cas21

[liverpool annie]

His medal card is at the Archives ... in case you don't have it !! 

Medal card of Lowe, Sydney Joseph

Royal Fusiliers Captain
Royal Fusiliers Major
Date
1914-1920

http://www.rootschat.com/links/04ss/

[mmm45]

Hi
The National Roll was a pay to be included Roll and it wasnt really National but mainly the Big Cities...Some of the entries have to be taken with a pinch of salt also.
The Best way (although you cant view em on online) is to check the Officers Files at the NA
As a colonel he should have a decent one...Theres a lot of LOWE medal index cards missing at the moment off ancestry i wish theyd herry up cos its one of my family names too!!

Ady

[cas21]

Thanks LiverpoolAnnie, I have the medal index card ,although i've tried since to get it up and couldnt!
mmm45 thanks for that, we'll both have to wait then. My Lowe not the same as yours then?
cas21

[mmm45]

No i dont think theyd have mixed in same circles mine were all miners from Castleford area!
 

[scrimnet]

Hi
The National Roll was a pay to be included Roll and it wasnt really National but mainly the Big Cities...Some of the entries have to be taken with a pinch of salt also.
The Best way (although you cant view em on online) is to check the Officers Files at the NA
As a colonel he should have a decent one...Theres a lot of LOWE medal index cards missing at the moment off ancestry i wish theyd herry up cos its one of my family names too!!

Ady

Indeed it was Ady, and also it is worth mentioning that the company went bust well before it was anything like complete

[Andy Pay]

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

[Montegobay1963]

Hi. I have a old military hat box with capt sj lowe stamped on it. Mark