Orders, Decorations and Medals

A fine C.B., C.B.E., M.C. group of sixteen awarded to Major-General Sir Charles Lane, 19th and 20th Lancers, Indian Army

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) neck badge in silver-gilt and enamels; The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 2nd type neck badge; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star (Lt., 19/Lncrs.); British War and Victory Medals, with oak leaf M.I.D. emblem (Capt.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (Capt., 20-Lancers); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, with oak leaf M.I.D. emblem; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; U.S.A., Legion of Merit, Commander’s neck badge, gilt and enamels, numbered on the suspension loop ‘564’ and inscribed on the reverse (Major General, British Army); Poland, Order of Polonia Restituta, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (16) £1600-1900

Major-General Sir Charles Reginald Cambridge Lane, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.B.E., was born on 4 December 1890, and educated at Bradfield and R.M.C. Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1910 and served with the Indian Expeditionary Force in France as A.D.C. to Brigade Commander and Divisional Commander from November 1914 to May 1916 (Military Cross, London Gazette 3 June 1916); G.S.O. 3 in France, May 1916 to December 1917; Brigade Major, France, December 1917 to May 1918, and with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, May 1918 to May 1920, serving in Egypt, Palestine and Syria; D.A.A.G. India, February 1924 to September 1925; G.S.O. 2 India, September 1925 to May 1928, and February 1930 to November 1931; Commanded the 20th Lancers from 1936 to 1938; Area Commander in India, 1940; Deputy Adjutant and Q.M.G., 10th Army, and D.Q.M.G. Bases and Lines of Communication PAIFORCE 1942-43; Commander 303 L. of C. Area, India Command 1943; Deputy Principal Administration Officer, HQ Supreme Allied Command, S.E.A.C. 1943-44; Representative in India of the Supreme Allied Commander, S.E.A.C. 1944-46; C.B. 1943; C.B.E. 1943; Knight Commander of the Indian Empire 1946; Order of Polonia Restituta 1945; Legion of Merit 1946; Major-General Sir Charles Lane retired from the army in 1947. He was Principal Regional Officer with the Ministry of Health from 1947 to 1957, and died on 14 September 1962.