Private Harold Edward Lane served with the 10th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire) Regiment during the Great War (1914-18). 

He was awarded the Military Medal (reported in the London Gazette on the 14th of January 1917) and was presented with the medal by the Mayor’s Office at Chesterfield in February 1918.  He lived at 24 Spencer Street, Chesterfield and had been sent home, due to the effects of gas.   

Sadly, he died due to the gas poisoning on 27th February 1919.  He is buried in the Churchyard at Christ Church, Chesterfield.