World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Thomas Lamb
Forename(s):
Thomas
Surname:
Lamb
Initial(s):
T
Service Number:
Officer
Rank:
2nd Lieutenant
Regiment:
King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry), 4th Battalion Territorial Force
Died:
30/06/1916
Buried:
Warkworth (St Lawrence) Cemetery, Northumberland
Service History:
Accidentally killed in an accident at Clipstone Camp, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire while heroically endeavouring to save himself & others from a bursting grenade during a bomb throwing practice.
Served only in the UK.
(Source: 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; p. 64)
Background:
Born in 1896, at Warkworth, Northumberland, the son of the late Thomas Lamb by his wife, Phyllis (née Smith}, of Brewery Lane, Warkworth.
Before joining up, Lamb was a Pharmacist. In 1911 he was working in West Ealing, London.
Lamb's father & grandfather were Brewers (based in Brewery Lane).
Cousin of Lieutenant Walter Lamb (Northumberland Fusiliers, 22nd [Service] Battalion [3rd Tyneside Scottish]) who was killed in action on the following day, 1 July 1916.
(Source: 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; p. 64)
Local Memorial:
Warkworth War Memorial, by St Lawrence's Church
