Name
Charles Lane
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27367
Northamptonshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ADELAIDE CEMETERY, VILLERS-BRETONNEUX
I. F. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial,
St. Peter’s Church Memorial, Mill End,
St. Peter's C & E Primary School Memorial, Mill End
Pre War
In the 1901 census the family are living on the Uxbridge Road. Father Leonard, aged 29, is a labourer, mother Sarah is 22, Charlie is 2, Kate is 1 and Leonard is one month old.
In the 1911 census the family is living in the Uxbridge Road Mill End. Father Leonard Lane is aged 39 a general labourer born in Amersham. Sarah is aged 33 and was born in Rickmansworth. Charles is aged 13, a schoolboy born in Mill End. Kate is 12, Leonard is 10, Frederick is 7, John is 5 and William is 2. Minnie and Alice are 5 weeks old.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
Killed in action in the actions of Villers Bretonneux in the line as the enemy opened a heavy machine-gun fire from the south-east corner of the Bois d'Aquenne and elsewhere causing numerous casualties on 24th April 1918. The 8th Division then attacked Villers-Bretonneux. The high ground around was covered but as they moved down the slopes they were mown down.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
