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.

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