Major-General Sir Ronald Bertram Lane KCB

Order of the Bath

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 KCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 (1847–1937) was a British Army

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 officer who became Military Secretary.

Military career

Lane was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1867. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General in Natal

Colony of Natal

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 in 1891, Aide-de-Camp

Aide-de-camp

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 to the Duke of Connaught

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

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 as Commander of the Guards' Brigade in Egypt in 1882 and Assistant Military Secretary in Canada in 1883. He went on to be Assistant Military Secretary at Headquarters in 1892, Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge

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 as Commander-in-Chief in 1889 and Commander of the Garrison at Alexandria

Alexandria

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 in 1898. His last appointments were as Commander of the Infantry Brigade at Malta

Malta

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 in 1901, Military Secretary at Headquarters in 1903 and Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Royal Hospital Chelsea

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 in 1905 before retiring in 1909.

In retirement he became Chairman of the Southern Alberta Land Company in Canada

Canada

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. He died at Carlton Hall in Saxmundham

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