Source: War diary.
Family Search: When Private Lovel Edward Lowman was born on 6 December 1888, in Fulham, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Pearce Lowman, was 26 and his mother, Annie Maria Le Masurier, was 21. He married Bertha Agnes Taylor on 28 March 1911, in St Alfege’s Church, Greenwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Quebec, Quebec, Canada in 1916 and lived in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1921 and Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada in 1947. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as cook. He died on 19 November 1947, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 58, and was buried in The Beaches, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
This soldier was the Secretary, Ontario Soldier’s Aid Commission and also sat on the Exemption Board for assessing conscripts’ regarding their application for exemption. See “Familiar Fields to Foreign Soil: Three Rural Townships and the Great War“.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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