LANE Edward Dion 2/Lt

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Surname: LANE;

Forename(s): Edward Dion;

Initials: ED;

Rank: 2/Lt;

Born in: London;

Previous Number: 1726;

Previous Battalion: 18 of;

Previous Regiment: R Fus;

Date of transfer to MGC: 25-Sep-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 59 Coy;

Date abroad: 14-Nov-1915;

Theatre of War: 1;

How killed: DOW;

Where: France;

When killed: 08-Dec-1917;

Awarded: MC;

Gallantry Notes: MC: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He engaged and put out of action two enemy machine guns. He took up a position in advance of the infantry and succeeded in covering their withdrawal, causing casulaties to the enemy, although under heavy fire himself.;

Other Data: b 30/5/1894
Commsn MGC 25/9/1916
POW Germany: 30/11/1917 - died 8/12/1917 at Caudry - gsw back
ICRC Ref: PA 17379/18108/19257/20839
Report, "The Times" 12/11/1923: "a wooden war cross, placed by the Germans on the grave of Lieut ED Lane, MC, was carried in the Chertsey Armistice Day procession and afterwards placed on the grave of Lt Lane's wife in Chertsey Cemetery".

MC offered Noonans Spt '22:
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. attributed to Second Lieutenant E. D. Lane, Machine Gun Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse contemporarily engraved and then erased, but with the following inscription still just about legible ‘For Conspicuous Gallantry and Devotion ... 2nd ... rd Dion L ... Gun Co ...’, in case of issue, save for the erasure good very fine £400-£500

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M.C. London Gazette 4 February 1918; citation published 5 July 1918: Temporary 2nd Lieutenant Edward Dion Lane, Machine Gun Corps:
‘For conspicuous gallantry ands devotion to duty. He engaged and put out of action two enemy machine guns. He took up a position in advance of the infantry, and succeeded in covering their withdrawal, causing casualties to the enemy, though under heavy fire himself.’;

Other Notes: Died as a POW.
LANE, Second Lieutenant, EDWARD DION, MC, 59th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 8th December 1917. Age 23. Son of Edward Dion Lane and Kate Lane, of 90, Idmiston Rd., West Norwood, London. IV. B. 5. Caudry British Cemetery - Nord, France. NB: 59 COY, not Bn
MC: LG 4/2/1918 (LG 5/7/1918);

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