LANE, Charles Edward Victor

Ploegsteert Memorial, BelgiumCredit: CWGC

Private
19th Battalion
Machine Gun Corps

Charles was born 1899 in Newport to William & Emily of Spicer’s Farm, Newchurch. Both the 1901 & 1911 has Charles living at 42 New Street in Newport.

Charles, aged 19, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action sometime between the 9th & 12th of April 1918, during the Battle of Messines, & is commemorated by the Commission on the Ploegsteert Memorial to The Missing in Belgium together with 11,390 of his First World War comrades.

Charles is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.