“Corporal Leonard J. Lowden, killed in action, was the only son of Mr J. Lowden (Labour Department), Christchurch. He was born in 1893, and educated at the Mornington and Otago Boys' High Schools, where he gained junior and senior scholarships, matriculating and taking the eleventh place on the list of candidates in the 1909 Civil Service examinations. Prior to enlistment he occupied the position of chief clerk in the Dunedin branch of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company. He left New Zealand as a private with the Twenty-fifth Reinforcements, and was transferred to the Lewis Gun Section while on active service. Before leaving New Zealand he was married to the daughter of the late Mr C. E. Thompson, of Dunedin.“ [Otago Witness, Issue 3367, 25 September 1918, Page 42]