Silver War Badge?

[Михаил Беленький]

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[Михаил Беленький]

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An old thread I know, but the following information might be of interest.

 

Further to the information supplied above regarding the ‘Silver War Badge’ (S.W.B.), there were two separate dies employed in its manufacture, and the badge in the photograph posted by Mikhail is of the earliest, or ‘Type I’, striking. The ‘Type I’ can be distinguished from the later type by the use of a horizontal pin (the ‘Type II’ having it vertical), smaller quatrefoils on the circlet, and a slight difference in the ‘I’ of the Royal and Imperial Cypher of the King-Emperor, George V.  

 

The issue of the S.W.B. was by application, and nominal rolls were kept of officers and men found eligible, which also recorded the number with which each badge was individually stamped. Therefore, we can identify the recipient of badge no. 28908 as one Alfred Ernest Lane, a cavalry N.C.O. who saw active service during the Second Anglo-Boer War, and in the first two years of the Great War. I’ve outlined his service history and other biographical details below.

 

07/02/1874 Alfred Ernest Lane is born in Catford, civil parish of Lewisham, county of Kent (Catford is now in Greater London, a district of the London Borough of Lewisham).

 

Son of Thomas John Lane (1846-1915) (at the Census of 1881, a ‘Carman* & Contractor’, employing 9 men) and Louisa Anne, née Trew (1851-1889).

 

* a driver of horse-drawn vehicles used for delivering goods.

 

08/02/1893 Alfred E. Lane enlists at St George's Barracks, Charing Cross, London, and attests into the ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’ for a ‘Short Service’ engagement (7 years with the Colours, 5 years in the Reserve; or 8 years with the Colours, 4 years in the Reserve).

 

At enlistment, gives his age as 19 years, and his ‘Trade or Calling’ as a ‘Pawnbroker’s Assistant’.

 

13/02/1893 3096 Private Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, joins his regiment at Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh.

 

31/05/1893 3096 Private Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, gains the 2nd Class Certificate of Education.

 

17/10/1893 3096 Private Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, fraudulently enlists, at Woolwich, into the Corps of Lancers of the Line, under the name of Alfred Bardrick.    

 

18/10/1893 Alfred E. Lane is posted to ‘16th (The Queen’s) Lancers’, as 3670 Private Alfred Bardrick.

 

19/10/1893 Alfred E. Lane joins ‘16th (The Queen’s) Lancers’ at the Cavalry Barracks, Canterbury.

 

03/04/1894 Alfred E. Lane is detained in Guardroom for 10 days, awaiting trial.

 

13/04/1894 Alfred E. Lane is tried and convicted of fraudulent enlistment into ‘16th (The Queen’s) Lancers’. Imprisoned for 28 days.

 

11/05/1894 Alfred E. Lane is relegated to former Corps, and returned to duty as 3096 Private Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’.

 

08/09/1896 3096 Private Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is appointed Lance-Corporal.

 

12/11/1897 3096 Lance-Corporal Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is promoted to the rank of Corporal.

 

11/05/1898 3096 Corporal Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is appointed Lance-Serjeant.

 

30/05/1898 3096 Lance-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, passes Group I of the 1st Class Certificate of Education. 

 

25/10/1898 3096 Lance-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, gains the 1st Class Certificate of Education. 

 

01/04/1899 3096 Lance-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is promoted to the rank of Serjeant.

 

03/11/1899 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, embarks with half of his regiment, and the regimental H.Q., on S.S. Wakool at Tilbury Docks, London, bound for Cape Town, Cape Colony.

 

28/11/1899 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, disembarks from S.S. Wakool at Cape Town, Cape Colony.

 

During the Second Anglo-Boer War, 6 D.G. formed part of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, fighting with distinction at the Relief of Kimberley and Battle of Paardeberg (both February, 1900), Battle of Driefontein (March, 1900) and on operations in the Transvaal throughout 1901.

 

19/12/1900 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, embarks on the R.M.S. Kinfauns Castle, bound for Southampton.

 

05/01/1901 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, disembarks from R.M.S. Kinfauns Castle at Southampton.

 

11/03/1901 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, embarks with drafts from his own and other cavalry regiments, on the S.S. Englishman at Royal Albert Docks, London, bound for Cape Town, Cape Colony.

 

10/04/1901 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, disembarks from S.S. Englishman at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony.

 

29/07/1902 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, extends his service to complete 12 years with the Colours.

 

16/08/1902 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, embarks with regiment on S.S. Ionian at Natal, Colony of Natal, bound for Madras, en route to new station at Bangalore, Mysore State, Indian Empire. 

 

31/08/1902 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, disembarks with regiment at Madras, Madras Presidency, Indian Empire.

 

12/12/1902 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’ marries Emilee Edith Westcott (1881-1929), at Colaba, Bombay Presidency, Indian Empire.

 

22/02/1904 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, re-engages for the Corps of Dragoons of the Line “. . . for such time as shall complete 21 years service”. 

 

30/08/1905 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, completes course of instruction at the School of Musketry, Bellary, Madras Presidency, Indian Empire, with his attainment graded as ‘Distinguished’.

 

29/04/1906 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is promoted to the rank of Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant.

 

02/08/1906 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is granted 6 months furlough in the United Kingdom.

 

28/12/1906 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is granted 6 months extension to his furlough in the United Kingdom.

 

01/05/1907 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is attached to the Permanent Staff of the ‘Fifeshire and Forfarshire Imperial Yeomanry’, at Kirkcaldy, county of Fife, in the rank of Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant. He remains on the strength of the ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’ as a supernumerary.

 

01/04/1908 3096 Supernumerary Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, ceases his attachment to the Permanent Staff of the ‘Fifeshire and Forfarshire Imperial Yeomanry’, and is attached to the ‘3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards’, stationed at Aldershot, county of Hampshire.

 

31/10/1908 3096 Supernumerary Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, ceases his attachment to the ‘3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards’, and is re-posted to the ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’. He embarks with drafts from his own and other cavalry regiments, on H.M.T. Braemar Castle at Southampton, bound for Cape Town, Cape Colony, en route to his regiment’s station at Middelburg, Cape Colony. 

 

22/11/1908 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, disembarks from H.M.T. Braemar Castle at Cape Town, Cape Colony.

 

01/04/1912 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is awarded the ‘Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal’.

 

19/12/1912 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, embarks with regiment on S.S. Kildonan Castle at Durban, Province of Natal, Union of South Africa, bound for Southampton, en route to new station at Canterbury, United Kingdom.

 

11/01/1913 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, disembarks from S.S. Kildonan Castle at Southampton, United Kingdom.

 

11/02/1914 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is permitted to continue in the service beyond 21 years.

 

15/08/1914 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, embarks with regiment on the S.S. Teviot, bound for Rouen, département of Seine-Inférieure, France.

 

17/08/1914 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, disembarks from the S.S. Teviot at Rouen.

 

As a unit of the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Cavalry Division (later retitled the ‘1st Cavalry Division’), 6 D.G. took part in the Battle of Mons during August, 1914, and the First Battle of the Marne in September. The 4th Cavalry Brigade then transferred to ‘2nd Cavalry Division’, with 6 D.G. subsequently seeing action at the First Battle of Ypres in October, 1914, the Battle Neuve Chapelle in March, 1915, and the Second Battle of Ypres in April, 1915.

 

01/08/1915 3096 Squadron-Quartermaster-Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, reverts to the rank of Serjeant, at his own request. 

 

16/09/1915 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, embarks for the United Kingdom.

 

17/09/1915 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, disembarks in the United Kingdom, and is posted to ‘No. 4 (Western) Cavalry Depôt’, at Newport.

 

24/10/1915 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is posted to the ‘3rd Reserve Regiment of Cavalry’, stationed at Canterbury.

 

Raised in August, 1914, the 3rd Reserve Regiment of Cavalry was the training unit for the ‘3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards’, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, ‘3/1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry’, ‘2/1st Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)’, and ‘1/1st Sussex Yeomanry’. 

 

10/02/1917 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, serving with ‘E’ Squadron, ‘3rd Reserve Regiment of Cavalry’, is ordered to his home address at 3 Norman Road, Canterbury, preparatory to discharge from the Army. 

 

27/02/1917 3096 Serjeant Alfred E. Lane, ‘6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)’, is discharged from the Army due to ‘Sickness’, as per paragraph 392 (xvi) of ‘The King’s Regulations and Orders for the Army, 1912’, being “No longer physically fit for War Service”.

 

Total period of Army service: 24 years, 20 days.

 

As of 18/12/1923, Alfred E. Lane is living at 22 Harrington Road, Leytonstone, Urban District of Leyton, country of Essex.

 

As of 02/11/1929 (death of wife), Alfred E. Lane is living at 33 Market Place, Reading, county of Berkshire.

 

As of 1939 Register, Alfred E. Lane is living with daughter, and her family, at 358 Peppard Road, Reading, county of Berkshire.

 

29/09/1959 Death of Alfred Ernest Lane, of 107 Connaught Road, Reading, Berkshire.

 

03/10/1959 Alfred Ernest Lane is cremated at Henley Road Crematorium, Caversham, county of Berkshire.

 

Alfred E. Lane’s third and youngest child, First Radio Officer Kenneth Neville Lane, Merchant Navy, was killed on 23/03/1942, aged 30. His cargo ship, the S.S. Clan Campbell, was sunk after being attacked by Italian torpedo-bombers in the Mediterranean Sea, en route to Malta.   

 

 

Alfred E. Lane’s Medal entitlement (in order of wear):

 

‘Queen’s South Africa Medal’ (clasps: ‘Relief of Kimberley’; ‘Paardeberg’; ‘Driefontein’; ‘Transvaal’)

‘King’s South Africa Medal’

‘1914 Star’ (clasp: ‘5th AUG.–22nd NOV. 1914’)

‘British War Medal 1914-1919’

‘Victory Medal’

‘Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal’

 

 

Chris

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