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Samuel Lowder

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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Commands held
  
Royal Marines

Award
  
Order of the Bath

Service/branch
  
Royal Marines

Died
  
4 June 1891

Rank
  
General

Awards
  
Companion of the Order of the Bath

General Samuel Netterville Lowder CB (died 4 June 1891) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.

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Military career

Lowder was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry. He commanded a unit of marines which secured the island of Kotka on the coast of Finland during the Crimean war and then commanded a battalion of marines providing support to French forces during the French intervention in Mexico in 1863. He became colonel second commandant of the Royal Marine Light Infantry in November 1864, colonel commandant of the Royal Marine Light Infantry in September 1866 and Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines (the professional head of the Royal Marines) in July 1867 before retiring in July 1872.

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Samuel Lowder Wikipedia