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Major Cyril Herbert Dodson LANE

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LANE
Major Cyril Herbert Dodson

Officer Commanding B Company,
18th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force

Born 23 February 1888, at Bondi, Sydney NSW

Educated: Unknown

Married; Consulting Engineer / Electrical engineer, of Wentworth Hotel, Church-hill, Sydney NSW
Next of Kin listed as: Wife; Evelyn Clara Lane, of Wentworth Hotel, Church-hill, Sydney NSW / (and later) Taree NSW

Photos of Major Lane are known to exist in the following locations:
Anzac Memorial p48. Town & Country Journal 10 Mar 1915 p29


Killed in Action
27th August 1915
at Hill 60, northern Anzac sector
Aged 27






18th Battalion, AIF


No Known Grave


Notes:


Previously served in Senior Cadets [6 years], 8 years in CMF, adjutant of 21st (Woollahra) Australian Infantry Regiment at outbreak of war.

Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) from 18 Aug 1914. Served in German New Guinea campaign, discharged from AN&MEF 6 Feb 1915, volunteered immediately on his return for the A.I.F., appointed Captain in A.I.F. 7 May 1915, Major 1 June 1915.

Embarked 25 June 1915.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission [early 1920s] lists wife as: E.C. Postle (formerly Lane), of Taree, NSW.
Father: Herbert Dodson Lane. Mother; Kate Lane.

Appears in group photo; Officers of No.17 School of Instruction, The Warren, Marrickville, Sydney. Town & Country Journal 10 Mar 1915 p29.

Major Lane was a partner in the firm of Maclurcan & Lane.

Killed in the attack on Hill 60, northern Anzac sector, 27th August: 'Thus by 6 o'clock the hill had apparently been taken; but the process had been far more difficult than the inaccurate maps had led the staff to believe. ...between 'B1' and 'C' there existed, not the straight sap which was shown on the maps, but a network of crooked trenches, ...and must therefore be blocked and held. This task would presumably be carried out by the third line of the central attack - 100 men of the 18th Australian Battalion under Major Lane. But this line, starting from the open near the sunken road and coming up the lower slopes of the hill, had been met by a whirlwind of shrapnel and small-arms fire which the previous lines had aroused. The troops were inexperienced, and their progress slower and less effective than that of the [NZ] mounted rifles. The gallant Lane with some of his men reached Trench '3,' and was killed in the bomb fighting which ensued near its eastern end.' (Bean Volume 2 p743, 752 quoted).

'18th Bn. Lane only officer killed.' 'Lane shot through heart.' (Bean diary No.16 p2. ML MSS 159).



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