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Lowell Yerex (24 July 1895 – 1968) was born in New Zealand, and attended Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, United States. He graduated from Valparaiso University in 1916. He volunteered for the British Royal Flying Corps in 1917, was shot down over France and spent four months in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
Nov 5, 2020 · As a Royal Air Force pilot in World War One, the tall, rugged New Zealander fell into German hands but made a daring escape from his captors. As a mercenary pilot, he lost an eye in a Central American revolution.
Aug 3, 2006 · At a time when the Anglo-American relationship was riddled with suspicion and competition, Lowell Yerex, a British subject who lived in America, had the misfortune of becoming entangled in it as he attempted to create a commercial airline empire in Central America.
Jan 23, 2007 · This is the story of the colorful career of a somewhat improbably named New Zealander, Lowell Yerex, an earlier pioneer of aviation in the Caribbean and Central America during the 1930s and...
Jan 1, 2007 · Lowell Yerex was a legendary New Zealand-born entrepreneur who established an airline empire in the Caribbean Basin during the 1930s and 1940s. Yerex sought to make his enterprises into...
Mar 4, 2021 · Lowell Yerex was born a British subject in 1895 in the dominion of New Zealand. His father, while also a British subject, was an ardent admirer of all things American. He manifested this attitude in a variety of ways, including naming several of his children after leading American figures.
Aviator of Fortune: Lowell Yerex and the Anglo–American Commercial Rivalry, 1931–1946. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii + 264 pp. ISBN 1-58544-500-2, $45.00 (cloth). Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2015
