Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The M.B.E. group of eight miniature dress medals worn by Warrant Officer E. E. Lane, Royal Australian Air Force

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type badge, silver on 2nd type riband; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal; Jubilee 1935; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s full sized riband bar and Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Victoria 50 Years Service Jewel, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Bro. E. E. Lane 1922-1972’, good very fine (9) £60-£80

M.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1938.

Edward Ernest Lane served with the 1st Australian Imperial Force in the Great War and was Mentioned in Despatches as a Sergeant in the Australian Army Pay Corps (London Gazette 11 July 1919). Transferring to the Royal Australian Air Force, he was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire as a Warrant Officer, and saw further service during the Second World War.