LANE, Edgar
| Service Number: | 4525 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 46th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Maldon, Victoria, Australia, 8 May 1894 |
| Home Town: | Maldon, Mount Alexander, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cyanider |
| Died: | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 6 April 1964, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Maldon General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Maldon Methodist Church Great War Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4525 | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4525, 5th Infantry Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles | |
| 28 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 4525, 5th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 4525, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne | |
| 8 Sep 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4525, 46th Infantry Battalion, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Raranga | |
| 17 Jan 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4525, 46th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Edgar Lane (Service No:4525) enlisted in the AIF on 1 September 1915 with 20th Castlemaine Depot Battalion, and was attached to 5th Infantry Battalion 14th Reinforcement on 28 January 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Alexandria on board HMAT A32 Themistocles. Private Lane embarked for Marseilles from Alexandria on 2 May 1916 for service on the Western Front. In October 1916 he was WiA in France (GSW), and was attached to 46th Infantry Battalion on 8 September 1919 when he embarked from England for Melbourne on board HT Raranga. Private Lane was attached to 46th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 17 January 1920.
Edgar was born in Maldon, Victoria in 1894, ninth of twelve children of Benjamin Lane (b1855 in Auckland, New Zealand) and Ellen Avery Rickard (b1859 in Adelaide, South Australia). Benjamin was a Miner in Maldon in 1878 when he and Ellen married. They settled in Maldon where they raised their family and Benjamin was a Miner until his death in 1909.
Edgar worked in Maldon as a Labourer and Cyanider, served for two years in the Militia, and in 1914 married his first wife Ruby Alma Wilson (b1895 in Maldon, Victoria). Following his Discharge from the Army, Edgar was in Melbourne in 1919 when he divorced Ruby and, in 1920, remarried to Florence Elizabeth Nicholson (b1901 in Maldon, Victoria). Edgar and Fornece settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Edgar worked as an Ironmoulder. Retiring to Bendigo in the early 1960s, Edgar died in 1964 and Florence in 1971.
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