Name
Reginald Robert Lane
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/07/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203208
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot X V . B . 11 Memorial ID 13948884
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
St. Peter’s Church Memorial, Mill End, Nr Rickmansworth
St. Mary's Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born 9th January 1898. Baptised 6th February 1898 at Chipstead, Surrey.
On the 1901 census father Robert Lane is 28, mother Catherine M Lane is 28 and Reginald Robert Lane is 3. Called up 7th July 1916 in Watford at the age of 18 years six months. The 1911 census shows the family living at 4 Cambridge Cottages, Uxbridge Road, Rickmansworth. Robert Lane aged 38 is a plasterers labourer born in Rickmansworth. Catherine Lane is 38 and was born at Shaftsbury, Dorset. Reginald Robert is 13 and was born in Purley Surrey.
Chest 37 1/2 inches height 5 foot 7 and 1/10th inches.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
Posted to the 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment 8th June 1916, moved to 3rd Battalion 16th July 1916. Transferred 25th October 1916 to the Sherwood Foresters.
Home 7th July 1916 to 25th February 1917. In France and Belgium 26th February 1917 until 23rd July 1918. Killed in action in the Dickerbusch Line on 23rd July 1918. At 11:30 am the enemy shelled 'D' company. Later one shell dropped on the same company and their HQ and caused 16 casualties.
Additional Information
British, War and Victory Medals, accepted on 25th January 1922 by C.M. Lane
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
