Samuel LowderGeneral Samuel Netterville Lowder, was a Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.Military careerLowder 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 Second [French intervention in Mexico|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 in July 1867 before retiring in July 1872.