Regimental number | 757 |
Date of birth | |
Place of birth | Tamworth, New South Wales |
School | Tamworth Public School, New South Wales |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Clerk |
Address | 47½Francis Street, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 20 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs E H Lambert, 47½ Francis Street, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
Previous military service | Served in the Citizen Military Forces, Tamworth, New South Wales (still serving at time of enlistment). |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 2nd Battalion, G Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/19/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A23 Suffolk on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Sergeant |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 2nd Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium |
Age at death | 23.6 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 23 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 33 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Edward and Matilda LAMBERT. Native of Tamworth, New South Wales |
Family/military connections | Brother: 137 Corporal John Lester LAMBERT, 5th Pioneer Bn, returned to Australia, 17 June 1918. |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Embarked from Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 5 April 1915. Disembarked Alexandria, 28 December 1915 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Appointed Lance Corporal, 23 January 1916; Corporal, 15 February 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 22 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 28 March 1916. Promoted Sergeant, 24 March 1916. Admitted to 1st Australian Field Ambulance, 20 May 1916; transferred to 26th General Hospital, Etaples, 29 May 1916 (laryngitis); rejoined Bn, 30 July 1916. Admitted to 3rd Field Ambulance, 21 April 1917 (trench feet); transferred to 6th General Hospital, Rouen, 25 April 1917; to England, 2 May 1917, and admitted to Lewisham Military Hospital, 3 May 1917. Transferred to 1st Auxiliary Hospital, 14 June 1917; discharged to No. 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 16 June 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 7 September 1917; rejoined Bn, 25 September 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 6 November 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |