Name
John Mortimer Lambourne
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/08/1916
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
51056
Royal Army Medical Corps
36th Field Ambulance
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
Plot IF28 memorial ID 56711441
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial, St. Peter’s Church Memorial, Mill End, St. Peter's C & E Primary School Memorial, Mill End. St. Mary's Church Memorial, Rickmansworth, Bell's United Asbestos Company. Harefield
Pre War
Born in Mill End, Hertfordshire 9th March 1889. Baptised 16th June 1889'
In the 1901 census the family are recorded as living in Uxbridge Road at a bakers shop. The family comprised father Charles Lambourne aged 39, a baker, born at Isley, Bedfordshire, mother Mary Ann aged 37 born in Rickmansworth, son John M aged 12, daughters Edith M, Florence E and Lillian E, all born in Rickmansworth.
In the 1911 census Mary Ann now aged 47 is listed as the baker with John Mortimer 22 managing the bakery business. Edith Mary, 20 is an assistant in a book shop and Florence Elizabeth and Lillian Emma are assistant confectioners.
Wartime Service
Formerly 984 Royal Fusiliers.
The 12th Division had been in the fighting on the Somme and on 16th August 1916 had arrived after 5 successive days of marching in the vicinity of Arras, where on most days portions of Arras were shelled and the railway line machine gunned at night - an 'unhealthy spot'.
He died during the Battle of Poziers.
Acknowledgments
Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
