Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe

Sidney was born in October 19, 1871 in the United Kingdom.[3]

He began his military service as an Sub-Lieutenant on May 14, 1891 and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1892 of the same day.[4] In 1902, he participated in armor and shell experiments on the HMS Belleisle and was later promoted to commander on December 31.[5] However, Drury-Lowe was suspended from his post for "disturbances" in the Portsmouth naval barracks in 1906.[2] Drury-Lowe married Clare Susan Charteris in 1909 and had a daughter, Pamela Jocelyn who was born in 1911.[3]

He was again promoted to captain on June 30, 1909. [6] In 1912,[7] Drury-Lowe took command of the light cruiser HMS Chatham and would command it during the First World War in the East African Campaign as he trapped the SMS Königsberg and sunk it along with the other ships as a part of the German fleet.[3] On November 23, he was injured in his foot after exiting a boat in a seaway and temporarily transferred command to Raymond Fitzmaurice.[8]

Drury-Lowe became commander of the HMS Zealandia on September 14, 1916[9] and later temporarily went on to command the HMS Princess Royal on October 9, 1917 and handed command back to John Donald Kelly three months later.[2] Finally, he was commander of the HMS Superb on February 2, 1918.[2] He became president of the Committee of Fire Control Tables from August 39, 1919 until December 10, 1920. Drury-Lowe was promoted to Rear-Admiral on February 19, 1920[10] and posthumously promoted to Vice-Admiral after his retirement on August 12, 1925.[11] He died in January 24, 1945 at St Annes-on-Sea from heart failure[3] and was cremated on January 26.[12]