JAMES SAMUEL LAMBERT

Image from the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 1917

Born: 1894, Seven Dials, Middlesex.

Died on or since: 8th May 1915; age: 21; KiA.

Residence: 2B Court, Mount Street, Tanner’s Lane, Ipswich.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

Date of Entry Therein: 16th January 1915 – France.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 8278

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, ‘C’ Coy, 1st Battalion.

Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1914-1915 Star.

Memorial Reference:

Panel 21.

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial,

West-Vlaanderen,

Belgium.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of William & Elizabeth Lambert, of 6, Dove Yard, St. Helen’s Street, Ipswich.

Brother to WILLIAM ALBERT LAMBERT.

CENSUS

1901   3, Court A, Mount Street, Ipswich.

James was 7 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

William Lambert, 40, a Boot & Shoe Maker – own account, born Holbrook, Suffolk.

Elizabeth Lambert, 38, born Bishop’s Stortford, Kent.

William Albert Lambert, 9, Mile End Town, London.

Margaret Lambert, 5, born London.

1911   Depot Suffolk Regiment, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

James was 17 years old, a Special Reserve soldier ranked Private with the 3rd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Occupation: Machine Attendant – Boot Factory.

Soldiers’ Effects to Elizabeth Lambert – mother & William A. Lambert – brother, c/o 4th Reserve Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, Halton Camp, Buckinghamshire.

James is also remembered on the handwritten war memorial at The Mission Free Church, Curriers Lane, Ipswich.

Suffolk Regiment, ‘C’ Coy, 1st Battalion:

Suffolk Regiment Battalion movements

Suffolk Regiment website

Friends of The Suffolk Regiment