John Loder Filmography

John Loder was a British-American actor. He was born William John Muir Lowe in London. Loder's father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the leader of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, surrendered. Both General Lowe and his son were present at the surrender of Pearse. He was born at No.11 Herbert Crescent, Knightsbridge, London educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, and followed his father into the army, being commissioned into 15th Hussars as a second lieutenant on 17 March 1915, and then served in the Gallipoli Campaign, leaving there... on December 19 that year. On April 21, 1916 until early May he was in Ireland, then proceeding to Rouen, France to rejoin his regiment. He was engaged in the Battle of the Somme and was taken prisoner by the Germans on March 21, 1918 at the village of Roisel and taken to Le Cateau gaol and then by train to the first of several prisoner-of-war camps, at Tastatt, in Baden, Germany. Upon being released, he stayed in Germany engaged in resumed military duties on behalf of the Inter-Allied Commission in Breslau and Upper Silesia.
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