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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 144

Three: Major S. Lambert, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and City of London Yeomanry, who was wounded in the opening days of the Gallipoli landings, resulting in him being crippled for many months thereafter

1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr. S. Lambert. R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medal (Major S. Lambert. R.A.F.), very fine (3)

Stanley Lambert was born on 29 April 1870 and resided at 'Culross', Torquay, Devon, where he worked as a chartered accountant. Following service with the City of London Yeomanry he was appointed Temporary Lieutenant, Armoured Cars, R.N.V.R., on 4 March 1914, gazetted 11 November 1914, and was later made Temporary Lieutenant-Commander, R.N.V.R., on 1 January 1915. Posted to the Dardanelles as 'G' Officer, he was wounded in early May 1915 and evacuated to England, being admitted to Chatham Hospital on 14 June 1915 for 6 weeks. His service records note, 'shrapnel wound left leg & compound fracture of tibia.'

Sent to Plymouth Hospital on 3 August 1915, his wound appeared to be healing, albeit he could still not walk far. Lambert was subsequently recommended for 3 months of Home Service and was attached for armament duties with the R.N.A.S. at Eastchurch from 11 October 1915. On 12 June 1916, he was transferred to Headquarters Staff at Dover Air Station, serving as Armament Officer. On 8 October 1917, he was transferred once again, this time to Manston. Posted to the Royal Air Force and appointed Major in May 1918, Lambert served brief spells in Paris and Berlin with Headquarters Staff, finally relinquishing his Temporary Commission on 6 September 1921, giving his address as the 'Junior Naval & Military Club, 96 Piccadilly W'; sold with copied service papers and further entitled to Territorial Decoration.


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