Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Boer War D.C.M. pair awarded to Sergeant F. Lowe, 6th Dragoon Guards
Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.V11.R. (Serjt., 6th Dragoon Guards); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (2715 Corpl., 6/Dn.Gds.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine (2)

D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September, 1901. Six D.C.M.’s to the Regiment for South Africa.
Lowe was wounded at Vredes Verdrag, Zand River, 10 May, 1900. At this action three Squadrons, taken from the Australian Horse, the Inniskillings and the Greys, and half a Squadron of the Carabiniers, were ordered to seize an apparently unoccupied kopje. The Squadrons, dismounting and leaving their horses below, took possession of the kopje, but shortly afterwards were set upon by a party of the Waterberg commando, who had been lying in ambush in a donga, and now crept up the hill, stampeded the horses, and poured a withering fire on the cavalrymen. These, belonging to several different units and being apparently under no single command, made no stand, but were driven in confusion down the hill, losing fourteen killed and thirty-six wounded, besides two Officers and twenty-five men prisoners. The Carabiniers suffered especially, losing Captain Elworthy and three men killed, and Lieutenants Collis and Moncrieff, and nine men wounded, three of whom died later.
Less than two months later, on 3rd July, Lowe was taken prisoner at Kameeldrift, along with Lieutenant Rundle and seven other men, all of whom were subsequently released.