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.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his mother: