Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut. A. P. Lane, 47 Co. 13/Impl. Yeo.) minor edge bruising, very fine £250-300

Ex D.N.W. 30 June 1998, lot 121.

Aymer Powlett Lane was born on 10 July 1871, the eldest son of Major-General Charles Powlett Lane (of the family ‘Lane of Glenden’). He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry in September 1891, Lieutenant in July 1892 and Lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry in February 1900. In South Africa he served in the 47th (Lord Donoughmore’s) Company, 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, taking part in operations in the Cape Colony and Orange Free State, including the action at Lindley, 27-31 May 1900, where he was taken prisoner. Later released, he was appointed a Railway Staff Officer on 17 September 1900. In April 1902 he was promoted Captain in the 3rd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was appointed Honorary Major in 1906. Promoted Major in September 1914, he was appointed to the Staff as an Embarkation Officer from September 1916. Sold with copied research, including an extract from Absent-Minded Beggars, Volunteers in the Boer War covering the Lindley disaster. Lane is mentioned by name in this and another extract as having narrowly escaped death from an enemy shell explosion. Also with a copied photograph of Colonel Spragge (commanded at Lindley) and officers of the 45th and 47th Companies, including Lane.