LANE, Dennis Richard
| Service Number: | WX16439 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Shipston-On-Stowe, England, 23 October 1922 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Trafalgar |
| Occupation: | Plasterer, Fixer & Greaser |
| Died: | Illness while a POW of the Japanese, Sandakan No. 1 Camp, Borneo, 16 January 1945, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Epitaph Labuan Memorial Panel 18 Age 22 , Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX16439 | |
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| 25 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX16439 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cheryl Mellor
Dennis was one of two sons and two daughters born to George Lane and Elizabeth Florence Jennings who married 1914 Suffolk, England.
The family migrated to Western Australia, and settled at Boulder where George Lane worked for Lake View Mines.
First son Anthony 'Tony' John Lane enlisted prior to his younger brother Dennis. Tony Lane WX12342 joined 2nd Independent Company, training in Guerrilla Warfare in Victoria's Mornington Penninsula. He was in a Japanese ambush on 20 February 1942 near Dilli, captured and later executed with about 14 or 15 men from the 2nd Independent Company.
Dennis left Singapore as a POW with 'E' Force Borneo to sail to Sandakan. He one of several thousand POWs who died at the hands of Japanese brutality and starvation aged 22 years.
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