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:

REST IN PEACE