LANE, Peter John

Rank: 
Fusilier
Unit / Base: 
9 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Service: 
Army
Number: 
864477
Died : 
Thursday, February 3, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
24
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Peter Lane 9 Commando
Fusilier Peter Lane was reported missing, later presumed killed in action, during operations at Monte Ornito and Monte Faito, Italy. He has no known grave. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ernest Lane; husband of Jane Lane, of North Kensington, London. His name is on a Marble Roll of Honour located on a cairn on Monte Ornito put in place by fellow No.9 Commandos post war.
  • His brother First Radio Officer Kenneth Neville Lane, Merchant Navy S.S. Clan Campbell (Glasgow), also died in the war when his ship in a convoy from Alexandria to Malta was bombed and torpedoed by enemy aircraft on 23 March 1942. Remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/72 and WO417/95.
Linked Content below.
In Memoriam entry in the Reading Standard 29 March 1946, p1 (below).
The British and Commonwealth Shipping Company Register website entry for SS Clan Campbell.
[Image] Jill Eaglestone, granddaughter.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 

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