Four: Staff Sergeant L. E. Kane, Royal Army Service Corps

1914-15 Star (M-20945 Cpl., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M-20945 Cpl., A.S.C.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24 (M-20480 S-Sgt., R.A.S.C.); together with two identity disks, ‘A.S.C. 20945 C.E. L. E. Kane’, medals extremely fine (6) £150-200

Lionel Edward Kane was born in Portsmouth and attested for the Army on 24 April 1903, aged 14 years, 6 months. As a Corporal in the A.S.C. he entered the Egypt theatre of war on 5 November 1914. His 12 years engagement expired in 1915 but he agreed to continue in the service until the end of the war. On 28 January 1919 he was discharged but on the next day he re-enlisted on a short service engagement - serving in India until he was finally discharged in May 1923.


With a quantity of original papers including: Attestation Form (fragmentary); Soldier’s Small Book; Certificates of Education (2) Second and Third Class; County of Wiltshire Driving Licence (2), dated July 1910-July 1911 (mounted on card) and June 1912-June 1913; papers re. pension; others papers (not bearing recipient’s name) suggesting further military service in North Africa, 1941-42, together with six photographs.