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3455042 Fusilier Justice Stanley Lane. Justice was born in Burnley 23 July 1915, and was always known as 'Justy', the son of Tom Lane and Hannah Elizabeth (Lee). He was named after the brother of Hannah Elizabeth Lee (His uncle). Justice married Florence Gertrude (Love) in Burnley 1938, and had one daughter - Shirley Ann Lane born 1944. Formerly a cotton weaver who lived at 42 Belgrave Street, Burnley, Lancashire. Received muliple gun shot wounds in the fighting in Normandy 1944. Information courtesy of Susan Bibby. The Burnley Express reported: - "Fusilier Justice Stanley Lane, whose wife resides at 42, Belgrave Street, Burnley, is now in hospital in this country suffering from multiple gun shot wounds received in the fighting in Normandy. Fusilier Lane has been in the army four and a half years, having served two years in Ireland. For sometime before the outbreak of war he was living at Carlisle, Cumberland. As a boy he attended Sandygate School and won medals for both football and cricket playing with the school teams".
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