Major Charles Willington Termaine Lane

Date published: 26/04/1918
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 04/04/1918
Age at death: 29
Cemetery: Namps Au Val British Cemetery, Somme, France
Plot: I. G. 8
Information: Major Charles Willington Termaine Lane M.C., mortally wounded in action 1st April; died 4th April at No. 41 Casualty Clearing Station, France, was the only son of Colonel and Mrs. Lane, Rathkenny House, Co. Meath. He was gazetted to 7th Dragoon Guards in January, 1908, and served in Egypt, India and West Africa. When war broke out, 1914, he, with his troop, crossed the frontier from Geidam into the Cameroons on 5th August, 1914. He was invalided home with blackwater fever in April, 1915, He then joined the Flying Corps in May, going to France in July, 1915, and took part in flying operations at the battle of Loos. He was invalided from the Flying Corps with fever, November, 1915, and rejoined his regiment in France early in April, 1916, and remained with them till his death, taking part in the entire battle of the Somme, 1916, and the fighting at Cambrai, where, as squadron leader, be was awarded the Military Cross on the field. In the big opening battle at Amiens on 21st March he was commanding his own regiment in the absence of his Colonel, and continued to do so until the day before he was killed.