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Good Morning everyone......

Have just picked up a single K.S.A. to:

REV. D. LAINE, C. TO F.

The medal is mounted as a single I have found on FMP has served in WW1......

Does anyone have anything on him......

Thanks in advance.....

Mike

LANE or LAINE???

For Rev D Laine I find nowt but for Rev D P Lane I find a lot - firstly he was RC.

In chronological order rather than the order I found them in:

From the Homeward Mail From India & China 12 September 1896 and in the company of at least one army officer who was to lose his life in the ABW:



From the Woolwich Herald 1 December 1899:



Underneath the headline is a long list of donors - Rev D P Lane comes fairly well down the list with a guinea.

The Morning Post of 1 April 1901 - War Casualty List - has Rev D P Lane at very bottom as having returned to duty.

August 1902 Shipping Records to be found on this site record that the "Reverends T S Gough & D P Lane" left South Africa on 31 August 1902 aboard the Assaye.

This Medal Roll was found on Ancestry for Army Chaplains and other do-gooders:



Army & Navy Gazette 27 March 1909



Mike - If you confirm you think I have the right man will search papers at time of WW1 and later for a possible obit. David.

Mike - curiosity and a coffee break got the better of me, thus in addition to the above.

Rev D P Lane = Rev Daniel Patrick Lane (1865-1920). Born in County Cork, for death details see below.

Newspaper mentions show that in the years preceding WW1 he was Chaplain to the forces in Malta. He can be found on an overseas forces 1911 Census return along with an assistant Chaplain but location not given but presumably Malta. He can also be found on the 1891 Census living at 22 Finsbury Circus, London with 3 other RC priests, cook, housemaid and a general domestic servant.

WW1:

Irish Times 14 August 1914:


Western Morning News 28 December 1918:


He died 7 August 1918 of pneumonia in Waterford Hospital:

Western Morning News 10 August 1920:


Western morning News 12 August 1920:


Think this one has more detail, from Western Evening Herald 11 August 1920:


Probate extracts first 1921, second 1927 - two because he lft an encumbered estate:


Note on this one, his mother's maiden name was Bourke:


Have found him on a public family tree so could tell you who is parents, uncles, aunts & siblings were but coffee break over.

Regards, David.

Good Morning and Thank You David.......

It is a miracle what a cup of coffee or two can do.......

When I was working I had a sign on my desk that said...... "With Enough Coffee, I Could Rule the World"

Again thanks for the info......

Mike

P.S. And FMP only has his KSA listed.....

Smethwick wrote: LANE or LAINE???

For Rev D Laine I find nowt but for Rev D P Lane I find a lot - firstly he was RC.

In chronological order rather than the order I found them in:

From the Homeward Mail From India & China 12 September 1896 and in the company of at least one army officer who was to lose his life in the ABW:

Good Day Everyone........

With thanks from David I was sent a number of newspaper clippings where my man Lane was mentioned..... One of the things that I do along with the newspaper is completely retype them so they are much more readable in many cases..... In typing the above from the Homeward Mail I came across another friend of ours.....

For your entertainment:

4TH HUSSARS

Lieut. Col.: W. A. Ramsay
Majors: C. W. Peters, R. Kincaid-Smith, L. F. Starkey
Captains: F. D. Baillie, R. Hoare, E. M. Lafone, C. L. Graham
Lieutenants: A. L. Trevor-Boothe, A. O. Francis, A Savory, H. G. Watkins, E. R. Clutterbuch, W. L. S. Churchill, Hon. H. Baring, A. F. Williams, A.M.R. Rotherham, C.O.B. Black-Hawkins, L.E. Dening,
Lieut. And Adj. R.W.R. Barnes
Lieut. And Qrmr. A. W. Cochrane
Lieut. And RidingMr. W. J. Rose
2nd Lieutenant I. G. Hogg

I wonder what ever happened to him and I know a troop ship would be rather large if they ever met each other
LOL......

Mike

Mike - You asked, tongue in cheek, whatever happened to W. L. S. Churchill? In the short term, after the Britannia had dropped him and his fellow 4th Hussars off in India, besides getting involved in the end of the Madhist Wars by taking part in expeditions to Hyderabad and the North-West Frontier, he played a lot of polo. For example a match between the 4th Hussars and Bangalore was reported in detail in the Madras Weekly News of 20 May 1897. The Hussars team consisted of (1) Mr Hogg, (2) Mr Churchill, (3) Captain Lafone, (4) Major Kincaid-Smith, all of whom had travelled out on the Britannia. The Hussars won by 7 goals & 1 subsidiary to 2 goals & 2 subsidiaries, with Mr Churchill scoring 3 goals and his performance being reported as “especially noticeable”. Two years later the same newspaper published an extremely long letter by him discussing and challenging some of the rules of polo – for example the restrictions on the height of the ponies allowed which he thought should be raised.

Not quite sure how I missed him.

You have listed the 4th Hussars and, based on the name search facility on this site, only six of them, besides Churchill, went on to serve in the ABW – Baring, Barnes, Hoare, Hogg, Lafone & Savory. Baring & Barnes were both severely wounded and the latter was awarded the DSO.

By the way you have mis-transcribed Clutterbuck.

David.