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Military service
Service number:
781158
Age:
27
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
March 31, 1891
Death:
July 25, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Vl. D. 25.
Additional information
Son of William and Clementina Lamb, of Chellaston, Derby, England.
Digital gallery of Sergeant John Lamb
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Memorial Plaque
This is a brass memorial plaque inside St Peter's Church, Chellaston, England, the village near Derby in which John Lamb was born. He enlisted on 11th August 1915 at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and was a butcher by trade. -
War Memorial
This is the village war memorial inside the lich-gate to St Peter's Church, Chellaston on which John Lamb's name is also commemorated (6th name down from the top). -
Church
This view of St Peter's Church, Chellaston shows the lich-gate at the edge of the pavement where the village war memorial is sited.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Lamb
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Lamb
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Lamb
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 444 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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