Robert William Lowry (British Army officer)


Robert William Lowry was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Berkshire Regiment.

Military career

Educated in Dungannon and Belfast, Lowry was commissioned into the 47th Regiment of Foot and served with his regiment in the Crimean War in Winter 1854 and then in Malta in January 1857. He commanded field forces in the Fenian raids in 1866. He became colonel of the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1894 and died in 1905.