This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in New York.

Fireman Low On^[1] is one of the few casualties buried in the United States who died as a result of enemy action.

He was born in the mid-1880s in Guangdong province in southern China. There is no record of his early life or when he became a mariner but he signed on for service with SS Diomed in Hong Kong on 14 March 1918. Continue reading →