John William LAMBERT

Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1

Gunner 50407 John William LAMBERT
26th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Died of Wounds, Saturday 12th August 1916, France, age 26

Home address: Freiston Road, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire

Born: 1890, Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Parents: Annie Lambert and John Lambert
85 Macaulay Street, Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Marital status: Single

Occupation: Police Constable

Enlisted: Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France,
plot VIII, row B, grave 135.

Link to Hyde: Enlisted in Hyde

From the Manchester Evening News, Thursday 17th August 1916, page 2, column 7:

The first member of the Hyde policemen soldiers to lose his life in the war.

Home address:	Freiston Road, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire
Born:	1890, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Parents:	Annie Lambert and John Lambert 85 Macaulay Street, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Marital status:	Single
Occupation:	Police Constable
Enlisted:	Hyde, Cheshire

Remembered:	Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, plot VIII, row B, grave 135.
Link to Hyde:	Enlisted in Hyde