Name
Geoffrey Fontaine Lambert
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/04/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN
Officers, A. 2. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Only son of Florence Olga Lambert, of "St. Merryn," Manorgate Rd., Kingston Hill, Surrey, and the late Walter Lambert, of Richmond, Surrey.
Educated at Lancing College. Joined Inns of Court O.T.C. Sept., 1914, obtained Commission March, 1915, went to France July 1915.
Wartime Service
Geoffrey's death was reported in the Hertfordshire "The death is reported at a British Red Cross Hospital on April 15, of Second-Lieut. Geoffrey Fontaine Lambert, of the 1st Herts Regiment. Deceased, who was only 21 years of age, was the son of a Richmond (Surrey) solicitor, and joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. at the outbreak of the war. He received his Commission in the Hertfordshire Regiment in March 1915, I went to the Front in July."
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
