1945 & All That

The 80th Anniversary of VE Day saw street parties across the country. Locally Peter Lowson was photographed by the local press at one in Thorn Park. Peter was pictured holding framed portraits of his maternal uncle, Harold Evans and his father, Leo. Harold lost his life during the Second World War when the ship he was on, HMS Glorious, was torpedoed. Leo meanwhile fought in the war after training in the United States as a Spitfire pilot. He was involved in a Spitfire crash during a training flight: Peter told the Herald: ‘They were learning how to fly in formation, and apparently the chap who was flying behind him couldn’t get into the proper position, so Leo took the lead to demonstrate what he was supposed to do, and this chap flew into some sort Salud!

OPM son and father, Henry & Peter Lowson of cable that then knocked the back of the plane off and he crashed. Thankfully, there were no injuries or fatalities.’ Peter added that after the war, Leo retrained as a teacher and ended up becoming headmaster of Prince Rock Secondary School.