Prince George Legion Branch 43 to return WWII era documents found in dumpster to late veteran’s family
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PRINCE GEORGE- Almost 80 years ago, the young Private Lawton Lowe returned home from the battlefields of Europe at the close of the second world war. He joined the Canadian Army alongside two of his brothers, serving from 1944 – 1946. Private Lowe, a Motorcycle Dispatch Driver with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, crisscrossed the continent in the final year of the war, running messages between command centers and units in the field. He returned home to his family in 1946 after demobilization, quickly returning to his old life as a farmer, and his war documents went into a trunk, where they remained, half-forgotten and gathering dust for decades.
You know, society’s become pretty desensitized to the sacrifices that all these people made. If they don’t have any value for it, they don’t get some benefit for it, they don’t seem to translate the sacrifice to the document. And they just think it’s garbage. – Gary Lowe, Son of the late Private Lawton George Lowe, on his father’s stolen documents
Lawton Lowe, lived a full life after the war. He met his wife Ester Lowe, at a dance in Niagra Falls, the pair quickly got married, and were nearly inseparable for the next 60 years. Lawton and Ester had two children, and according to his son Gary Lowe, he was a dedicated man who spent a lifetime in service to others. He fought in the war as a teenager with just a grade 9 education, years later at 27 years old, Lawton Lowe, now a young father and husband, went back to school, promptly earning his high school diploma, before continuing on to earn a Masters of Theology, and then spending the next 8 years abroad in India, serving as a missionary alongside his young family.
