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Royal Air Force Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, EIIR, Corporal Gibson Richard Brett Lowe, Royal Air Force, unlucky in love having 3 marriages and his friend stole his wife whilst on service
Officially impressed: “E2418184 CPL G R B LOWE RAF”
His unfortunate circumstances were aired out in court and published in the Leicester Daily Mercury on 24th November 1963:
BAD CASE OF GOING AFTER ANOTHER MANS WIFE – SAYS JUDGE
‘This appears to be a very bad case of a man persistently going after another man’s Wife’, said Judge D.H. Robson at Leicester Divorce Court.
DECREE AWARDED FOR ADULTERY
He was awarding a decree nisi on the grounds of adultery against Joyce Ellen Florence Lowe. He also awarded £100 damages against the co-respondent.
The husband had claimed £500 damages. The court exercised its discretion on the husband’s own admission of adultery. No order was made concerning custody of the six children of the marriage.
JOINED RAF
The co-respondent was Mr. Ronald Frederick Gurney, 113 Hand Avenue, Braunstone, Leicester.
Said Judge Robson:
“Both Mrs. Lowe and Mr. Gurney have made statements in which they both admit that since September 1959 they have been living together.”
The couple were married in 1949, and according to the husband, it was a happy marriage.
In the summer of 1958, he joined the R.A.F., asking Gurney, who was his friend and near neighbour, to keep an eye on his wife and children.
“When he came home on leave, he discovered that not only had the co-respondent kept an eye on his wife, but the relationship between them had become something rather more intimate,” said Judge Robson.
“On two occasions, he sought the aid of a police officer to remove the co-respondent from his house.”
The judge said that he was satisfied that this was not the happy marriage that the petitioner had claimed.
“I am not really sure that he or the children have lost very much. I doubt if a figure of damages is required to compensate them for their loss.
“But this husband has lost his wife, and so I shall award him damages of £100 against the co-respondent, and the costs will be against the co-respondent,” he said.
Corporal Gibson Richard Brett Lowe, was born on 9th May 1930 in Liecester, Leicestershire.
The son of Richard Brett Lowe and Nellie (Bartram).
He married his first wife Joyce Ellen Florence Rylett in Leicester in Mid 1949.
As noted in the newspaper article he joined up with the RAF about 1958.
A notice in the Leicester Mercury on 28th December 1959 notes:
“PUBLIC NOTICES,
I, Gibson Richard Brett Lowe of RAF Edlesborough, Dunstable, Beds, hereby certify that I will not be responsible for any debt or debts incurred in my name after the date hereof, Dated 24-12-59, signed G.R.B. Lowe”
However it was found out that his friend and neighbour who he had asked “to look after wife” whilst he was away with the RAF, was doing just that and then some.
After his divorce, he later remarried to Aminah Damming, born “Aminah Bachi” in another country, in Leicester during 1970.
9 years later he remarried to Pamela J Mundy in Bristol, during 1979.
Gibson finally looks to have got to enjoy 28 years of marriage, before his death in 2007, living in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
