Lane, RW

2nd Lieutenant Reginald William Lane

Reginald was born on July 10^th 1898, the elder of two sons of bank secretary Harry Lane and his wife, Margaret. He came to the College in April 1911, two years before he was joined by his younger brother, John, and would go on to be at Dulwich for the next six years, during which time he was a boarder in Elm Lawn. He left in the spring of 1917, whilst a member of the Modern Sixth.

After leaving, Reginald entered the Royal Field Artillery Cadets, and subsequently transferred to an Infantry Officers Cadet Battalion. He took up a commission that December in the Hampshire Regiment, before transferring to the newly-renamed Royal Air Force early the following summer. In August 1918 he became a qualified observer, and proceeded to France shortly afterwards, where he was consistently engaged in reconnaissance work. At one point that October he and his pilot went missing during a mission, although three days later they both returned to their base unharmed. On November 9^th however, whilst returning from a mission over enemy lines, they were wounded, and later crash landed upon returning to their airfield at Roubaix, with fatal results.