William Cecil Lowe qualified (MRCVS, London) in December 1896 and came to South Africa to take up a temporary appointment in the Cape Veterinary Service for rinderpest control. Arriving for duty in 1897, he worked at Aliwal North, Herschel, Glen Gray, and Uniondale. During the Anglo-Boer war he saw active service from November 1899 to November 1901 as a civilian veterinary officer and then as a veterinary lieutenant to July 1902, with Kitchener's Fighting Scouts in Natal, the Cape Colony, Transvaal and the Orange Free State. In 1907 he was awarded the FRCVS for his thesis entitled Rinderpest.

During World War I (1914-1918) Lowe served in the British Army Veterinary Corps and in 1926 was honoured as an officer of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

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Cape of Good Hope. Report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, 1897, pp. 31-33.

Lowe, W.C. Rinderpest (1907). FRCVS thesis collection, London, Series 1 no.129.

Malherbe, F.J. du T. Family register of the South African nation, 3rd ed. Stellenbosch: Tegniek, 1966.

Posthumus, P.J. Past Veterinarians in South Africa, Vol. 1, 10th edition, [1992].

Supplement to the London Gazette, 3 July 1926, pp. 4407-4408. Retrieved from https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33179/supplement/4408/data.pdf on 2018-6-13.

The London Gazette, 1 November 1901, p. 7048. Retrieved from https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27370/page/7048/data.pdf on 2018-6-13.

Compiled by: D.W. Verwoerd

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