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In Heaton Cemetery, Bolton.

James Lowe, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, Second Volunteer Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Died of enteric fever in South Africa on 15th January 1902, aged 21. Son of Henry and Alice Lowe.

On the regimental ABW memorial in Preston he's a drummer but on the Bolton roll of honour he's a bugler!

Very nice Berenice, on the official casualty roll and medal roll he is a drummer.

I think in the field he was more likely to carry a bugle than a drum, but I am sure could play both.

From the Bolton Evening News, 18th January 1902.

"BOLTON VOLUNTEER DEAD

There is sad news for Boltonians in the casualty list sent out from the War office. Bugler J. Lowe, a single young man, of 9, Weymouth-st., Bolton, had been a member of the Bolton Rifle Volunteers (2nd V.B.L.N.L. Regiment), and formed one of the large number of local active-service men who left home and happiness for war and its risks on February 11th last, under Captain T. Phethean. As was reported in our columns on Saturday last, he was "dangerously ill" with enteric fever at Mafeking ten days ago. The War Office description of the phrase quoted means that a man is, unfortunately, in such a condition that he is not likely to recover. Such proved to be the case with Volunteer Lowe, for last night's returns show that he died on Wednesday, after lingering for a week between life and death. He had been with his comrades, located in one of the almost countless blockhouses that guard the hundreds of miles of railway line from Cape Town to the interior."