Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booklunteered and joined the London Scottish as a Private, 21 Oct. 1914, and after a period of training, embarked at Southampton with a draft of some 600 officers and men for the 1st Battn., 10 March, 1915. On Good Friday, 2 April, his (D) Coy. were in some barricades at Richebourg l'Avoué, south of Neuve Chapelle. After having been in the trenches all night, he was smoking after breakfast in what seemed a perfectly safe place, when a stray bullet passed through a sandbag and penetrated the right side of his chest. To his comrades the wound seemed a slight one, and after first aid was given he was removed to No. 3 Field Ambulance, near Bethune. There it was discovered that internal hæmorrhage had set in, and he died in the early hours of the morning on 3 April, 1915, and was buried in Bethune Cemetery. [Illustration: =Charles Glass P. Laidlaw.=] =LAING, THEODORE=, Private, No. 2131, 1/14 Battn. (The London Scottish) London Regt. (T.F.), elder _s._ of William Arthur Laing, of Dalmahoy, Horsell, Woking, an old member of the London Scottish, by his wife, Lucy Glanvill, dau. of William Walters; _b._ Tooting Graveney, 16 May, 1897; educ. City of London School, where he was for two years in the O.T.C.; enlisted in his father's old regiment the day before the declaration of war, 4 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, 15 Sept. and fell in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 1 Nov. 1914. His Capt. wrote: "Your brave son was shot through the head, and death must have been almost instantaneous. He was one of our keenest soldiers in the company, and his loss will be greatly felt by all his comrades with whom he was a great favourite. I, personally, shall miss him intensely." Though not 18, Laing was over 6 ft. in height, big and broad in proportion, also he was a first-class shot. [Illustration: =Theodore Laing.=] =LAIRD, JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 2852, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of John Laird, of 6, Ann Street, Greenock; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =LAKE, TOM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2598), 169200, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =LAMBERT, CHARLES HENRY=, Private, No. 2136, A Coy., 1st Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Charles Lambert, of Newport, Monmouth, by his wife, Louis, dau. of Charles Henry Collins; _b._ Loughborough, co. Leicester, 14 April, 1895; enlisted two days after the declaration of war, 7 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 23 March, 1915; _unm._ A letter, evidently written shortly before his death, in which he says: "We have just finished our four days in the firing line, and our casualties are very small," was found on him and sent to his mother. =LAMBERT, CHARLES HENRY=, Lieut., A.V.C. attd. 58th Brigade, R.F.A., eldest _s._ of John Henry Lambert, of Redmount, Ballinasloe, co. Galway, J.P., by his wife, Adelaide, dau. of William Tombes Dewè; _b._ Redmount, Ballinasloe, 20 July, 1882; educ. privately, and when war broke out had been for some years with Mr. H. S. Persse, the well-known trainer at Chattis Hill, Stockbridge, Hants. He joined the Army, May, 1915, and was appointed temporary Lieut. in June 1915; left for Egypt in May, 1915, and died in the General Hospital, Alexandria, 16 Aug. 1915, two weeks after a severe operation, while on active service; _unm._ He was buried at Alexandria. Lieut. Lambert was a good all-round sportsman; and rode several point-to-point winners. [Illustration: =Charles Henry Lambert.=] =LAMBERT, FRANCIS HENRY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., only _s._ of Fitzgerald Gage Lambert, of Rockbourne, Salisbury, Civil Engineer (retired), by his wife, Nina Marie Louise, dau. of the late Francis Bradley Dyne, of Gore Court, Kent, and grandson of the late Capt. Edward Henry Gage Lambert, R.N. [3rd _s._ of Sir Henry John Lambert, 5th Bart.], by his wife, Renira Anna (who _m._ secondly Admiral the Hon. Fitzgerald Foley), dau. of the Rev. Richard Fortescue Purvis, LL.B.; _b._ Province of Lucknow, India, 17 Oct. 1895; educ. Charterhouse and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Hampshires, 1 Oct. 1914, and was attached to the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. until 26 Dec. following, when he went to France to join the 1st Battn.; was accidentally wounded there, and returned to England on sick leave and remained until 29 April, when he left for the Dardanelles in charge of a draft to the 2nd Battn.; was promoted Lieut. 27 May following; was wounded in the British attack on the Krithia-Achi-Baba position, Gallipoli, on 5 June, and taken on board the hospital ship "Somali," where he died on the 7th. Buried at sea; _unm._ =LAMBERT, JACK FELLOWS=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, eldest and only surviving _s._ of the late Ernest Lambert, Financier (_d._ 1898), by his wife, May (23, Terlingham Gardens, Folkestone), dau. of the late Hon. James Israel Fellows, Agent-General for New Brunswick (_d._ 1894); _b._ Coombe, Malden, co. Surrey, 3 Sept. 1891; educ. Marlborough, and Merton College, Oxford, where he was in King Edward's Horse; was manager of a cocoanut estate in the Malay States when war broke out; came home and applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the K.R.R.C., 27 April, 1915; went to France in May, was in action near Ypres early in June; and was killed in the counter-attack on the German position at Hooge, 30 July, 1915; _unm._ He was at first reported missing, and it was not until March, 1916, that he was officially returned as killed. His Commanding Officer wrote: "He was a splendid Platoon Commander and his men loved him." [Illustration: =Jack Fellows Lambert.=] =LAMBERT, JOHN MOUNSEY=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, only _s._ of the late Major-Gen. George Craster Lambert, of Bolton Hall, Alnwick, late 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers, by his wife, Isabella, 3rd dau. of Major Alexander Browne, of Doxford Hall, Chathill; _b._ Breamish House, Alnwick, co. Northumberland, 21 Dec. 1883; educ. Mr. Moore's School, Alnmouth, and Wellington College; joined the Northumberland Militia, now the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 1903, promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1906, and Capt. 29 Aug. 1914; went to France, 30 Aug. 1914, when he was attached to the 1st Battn. of his regt., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 27 Oct. following. Buried near where he fell; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Mounsey Lambert.=] =LAMBERT, STAMFORD LEIGH=, Private, No. 2106, 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (R.F.), 29th Division, 4th _s._ of John Lambert, of 86, Chesterton Road, Cambridge, late Postmaster of that town, by his wife, Annie M., dau. of John Mostock; _b._ Lincoln, 10 Sept. 1890; educ. Perse School, and Training ship Worcester; served in the Milne and Ellerman and Bucknall S.S. lines as 3rd officer; joined the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, 28 Sept. 1914; left for the Dardanelles with the 29th Division, 21 March 1915; was pre |