The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E W Lane

Photograph by "Steve N"

Private (unpaid Lance Corporal), Ernest Walter LANE, G/1301, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 3rd March 1917.

Born Bromley, Kent, son of William John & Martha Lane.

10th June 1906, St Paul Stratford, Essex, married Louisa Agnes Dunlop.

Stanley Ernest Lane, born 22nd July 1906; Gladys Clara Lilian Lane, born 10th April 1908; Louisa Agnes Lane, born 10th March 1910.

1911 Census - 42 Bourne Road, Bromley, Kent - Walter Ernest Lane, head, age 25, married, general labourer, worker, born Bromley, Kent; Louisa Agnes Lane, wife, age 23, married 4 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Gosport, Hampshire; Stanley Ernest Lane, son, age 4, born Stratford, Essex; Gladys C L Lane, daughter, age 2, born Bromley, Kent; Louisa Agnes Lane, daughter, age 1, born Bromley, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.

26th July 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at Regina Trench Cemetery, V. A. 5., Grandcourt, France. Commemorated on Bromley War Memorial.

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