Lieutenant-Colonel L.T. Lowther
Prince Edward Island Light Horse
1st Infantry Brigade
West Nova Scotia Regiment

I think right now we are going through the most critical part of the war. What is needed most is equipment and money. Every plant in this country should be working night and day without holidays. It is not simply urgent that they do so; it is life and death. In my opinion, there isn’t anything that Canadians can do that they shouldn’t do, and do so quickly.

(Telegraph-Journal, 7 Jun 1941, 1)

Born in Prince Edward Island on 11 June 1896, Lewis Trueman Lowther was a First World War veteran, school principal, and commanding officer of the Prince Edward Island Light Horse since 1936. He enlisted with the 85th Battalion as a private in 1915 and served in France as a sergeant. After being commissioned as a lieutenant in England he returned to the front, where he was wounded in September 1918.

Following mobilization in the Second World War, Lowther went overseas in January 1940 to be deputy assistant adjutant general with the 1st Canadian Division. He temporarily took command of the 1st Canadian Brigade from December 1940 to February 1941. After being succeeded by Brigadier J.H. Roberts, Lowther was appointed to West Nova Scotia Regiment which he commanded from March to April 1941.

He then returned to Canada in June 1941 to be general staff officer attached to senior officer school at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. A year later he was appointed GSO of 6th Canadian Division and received the Order of the British Empire in April 1943.

He returned to being a principal in PEI, where he died on 12 June 1986, a day after his ninetieth birthday.