Mrs. Sarah Wilkins Lamplough of Ottawa, Ontario, was the 1942 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 1942, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost a child in military service to Canada.

On May 9, 1915, her son, Corporal Leonard Alderson Lamplough, was killed in action while serving with the Canadian Field Artillery.

On July 10, 1918, her second son, Gunner Frank Wilkins Lamplough, was killed in the line of duty also while serving with the Canadian Field Artillery.