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    1. [IRL-CARLOW] glad and proud at 19 years.
    2. michael purcell
    3. ROLL OF HONOUR. Carlow Sentinel, February 6th 1919. Midshipman J.D.A. Lane, R.N.R. Midshipman J.D.A. Lane, Royal Navy Reserve, aged 19, whose grandfather is well known and highly esteemed in Carlow, was drowned whilst on offensive patrol with the C.M.B.'s. on October 15th 1918, was the only son of Captain H. Angell Lane, R.A.M.C., H.M.A.T., of Chelsea and Formoss (?). He was a Cadet on O.T.S.'s "Port Jackson" and "Midway" , joined the Navy in 1916, and spent the winter of 1917--18 on a destroyer in the North Sea. He had the sailor's intuition that he would not live to hear Peace proclaimed, and left this message :--- If all of us at sea were to die, it would be a small price to pay for the freedom of our country from invasion, so I hope you will not be unhappy but as glad and proud as I am.

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