Oldham Historical Research Group

'THE GREAT WAR', 'THE WAR TO END WAR', 'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'
from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

JULY TO NOVEMBER 1916

SOLDIERS IN OTHER REGIMENTS

Private Joseph Thomas Lane, 25066

Joseph Thomas Lane

Private Joseph Thomas Lane

Newspaper obituary:

"Mrs Lane, of 25, Frank Street, Oldham, received information on Tuesday that her second son, Private Joseph Thomas Lane, Manchester Regiment, was wounded on July 2nd and died the day following. He was 19 years of age. He enlisted on January 24 this year and had been in France six months. Before the war he was employed at the Orme Ring Mill as warehouse clerk. He was an old Bluecoat Boy. His brother, John William, is serving with the 1/10 Manchester Regiment in Egypt. He went through the Gallipoli campaign and was slightly wounded and afterwards contracted fever being sent to hospital at Woolwich."

CWGC

Private Joseph Thomas Lane:25066
Date of Death:03/07/1916Regiment/Service:
Manchester Regiment 19th Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 34.
:DAOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

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