S/SGT. LAWRENCE E. LANE, 31079740 KIA 

STAFF SERGEANT LAWRENCE E. LANE, 31079740 KIA US Army. Sergeant Lane graduated from Haverhill High School in 1938, and was later employed as houseman at a Cambridge, Mass., hospital. He served as an organist in several churches in Haverhill before going into service. In the Army, carrying a portable organ with him, with a lantern on one side and a soap box for a seat, he continued his music. After entering the Army on July 19, 1942, and training at Camp Gruber, Okla., and Fort Patrick Henry, he attended radio school at Fort Benning, Ga., and became a radio instructor there. He later transferred to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and in December, 1943, shipped overseas to North Africa. He served in Hq. Co., 1st Bn., 349th Infantry Regt., 88th Infantry Division. In March, 1944, he was sent to Italy. In the drive for Rome, his radio squad was moving clown a mountainside when an enemy shell exploded nearby and he was instantly killed, on May 17, 1944. Sergeant Lane is buried in a military cemetery in Italy, as of 1946. He leaves his father, C. Leroy Lane, 4 Westminster Ave., and one brother.

STAFF SERGEANT LAWRENCE E. LANE, 31079740 KIA US Army. Sergeant Lane graduated from Haverhill High School in 1938, and was later employed as houseman at a Cambridge, Mass., hospital. He served as an organist in several churches in Haverhill before going into service. In the Army, carrying a portable organ with him, with a lantern on one side and a soap box for a seat, he continued his music. After entering the Army on July 19, 1942, and training at Camp Gruber, Okla., and Fort Patrick Henry, he attended radio school at Fort Benning, Ga., and became a radio instructor there. He later transferred to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and in December, 1943, shipped overseas to North Africa. He served in Hq. Co., 1st Bn., 349th Infantry Regt., 88th Infantry Division. In March, 1944, he was sent to Italy. In the drive for Rome, his radio squad was moving clown a mountainside when an enemy shell exploded nearby and he was instantly killed, on May 17, 1944. Sergeant Lane is buried in a military cemetery in Italy, as of 1946. He leaves his father, C. Leroy Lane, 4 Westminster Ave., and one brother.

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