Second Lieutenant Maurice Cane

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Date published: 26/10/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 04/08/1917
Age at death: 35
Cemetery: New Irish Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Plot: III. H. 5.
Information: Second Lieutenant Maurice Cane, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action on August 4th, 1917, was the only son of Colonel Claude Cane, St. Wolstan's, Celbridge. Lieutenant Cane was educated at Eton and Oxford. He qualified as a Mining Engineer at the School of Mines, Camborne, and later went to British Columbia. On the outbreak of war he joined the Canadian Naval Volunteers, but in June, 1915, returned home and obtained a commission in his father's old regiment. He went to France in the following November, and had served there continuously, until he fell in action.