Name
Lionel Alfred Francis Cane
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/11/1914
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
East Lancashire Regiment
2nd attached 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LANCASHIRE COTTAGE CEMETERY
I. B. 4.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 19 Dec 1884 at Poona, India son of the Rev. Alfred Granger and Emily Annette Cane, later of Great Paxton Vicarage, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire. Educated at Haileybury College 1898-1903. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 3 Dec 1904 from the Militia. Promoted to Lieutenant on 11 Nov 1906 and Captain on 14 May 1913. Served in South Africa as Adjutant of the Battalion from 1910 to 1913.
Wartime Service
He was at home on leave at the outbreak of war, so he applied to join the 1st Bn. and entered France in Sep 1914. He was killed in action while in charge of two companies near Ploegsteert.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
