Lieutenant Albert William Lane-Joynt

Regiment: Dorset Regiment
Date published: 09/06/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 26/02/1916
Age at death: 18
Cemetery: Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, Pas de Calais, France
Plot: I. K. 4.
Information: Lieutenant Albert William Lane-Joynt, Dorset Regiment, who was killed in action on February 26th, 1916, was the only son of Mrs. Glenleigh J. S. Taylor, 21 Ashboumham Mansions, Chelsea, London, S.W., and the late Albert Lane-Joynt, B.L., Dublin. Lieut. Lane-Joynt was educated at Elstree and Radley, where he was a member of the O.T.C. for five years. When war broke out he received a Commission in the Dorset Regiment, and got his second star two months later. In March, 1915, he was transferred to the Motor Machine Gun Service, and went to France in June, 1915.