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Thomas Arthur LANE

Regimental number3146
Place of birthKempsey, Macleay River, New South Wales
SchoolPublic School, New South Wales
ReligionBaptist
OccupationCordialmaker
Addresscorner of Malvern Road and Osborn Avenue, East Malvern, Victoria
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation41
Next of kinWife, Mrs Charlotte A Lane, corner of Malvern Road and Osborn Avenue, East Malvern, Victoria
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date20 July 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name22nd Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/39/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A73 Commonwealth on 26 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll59th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 19 July 1916
Place of death or woundingFrance
Age at death45
Age at death from cemetery records42
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsV.C. Corner (Panel No 16), Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
168
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Thomas and Christina LANE; husband of C. Addie LANE, Leongatha, Victoria. Native of New South Wales
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Allotted to and proceeded to join 57th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 23 February 1916.

Transferred to 59th Bn, 15 March 1916.Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.

Posted missing, 19 July 1916.

Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 29 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.

Handwritten note on Form B103: 'Presume Buried In No Man's Land approx 5J90 43 to 5K02.5.1 Sheet Hazebrouck 5A'.

Statement, Red Cross File No 1550307, 5389 Corporal L.A. HALL, 59th Bn (not 60th Bn, as on file) (patient, No 16 General Hospital, Le Treport), 10 November 1916: 'He was killed. I saw him lying dead and I took his disc and brought it in.'

Second statement, 3515 Pte P. WICKHAM, 59th Bn, 2 May 1917: 'The last that I saw of T.A. Lane was wounded in hip about 200 yards from our trenches. I was next to him when he got wounded[;] that was the last I saw of him.'

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2445, LANE Thomas Arthur
Red Cross file 1550307

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