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Name: LAMBERT, Henry McLaren (Capt.)
Nee: son of Edward Tiley Lambert, of Telham Court, Battle, Sussex. Bro of Archie Fox Lambert and Reginald Everitt Lambert
Birth Date: 25 July 1879 Sevenoaks
Death Date: 13 May 1915 Ypres, NW Europe, on active service
Last Date: 1915
Profession: Ostrich farmer
Area: Nairobi
Book Reference: Gazette, CWGC, Nicholls, Barnes
War Service: Captain, 1st (Royal) Dragoons in WW1
School: Harrow & Trinity College Cambridge
General Information:
Gazette - 16/8/16 - Probate & Admin. - Henry McLaren Lambert of Nairobi who died NW Europe 13/5/15
Gazette - 6/9/16 - Probate & Admin. - Henry McLaren Lambert, of Nairobi who died 13/5/15
Nicholls - All Saints Cathedral - The lower portion of a tower was added in 1922 to house a peal of bells given in memory of Henry Maclaren Lambert (killed on active service on 13 May 1915) and his brother Archie Fox Lambert (killed on active service 2 days later [incorrect]), who farmed ostriches on the Athi plains.
Barnes - Muthaiga Club War Memorial - 13 May 1915 aged 36, Capt. 1st (Royal) Dragoons, Hop Store Cemetery Belgium
Buried in Hop Store cemetery, Belgium
CWGC Captain Henry McLaren Lambert of the 1st Royal Dragoons Cavalry Division was born at Newland Lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent on the 25th of July 1879, the son of Edward Tiley Lambert and Janie McLaren, the third daughter of James McLaren of Innergellie, Fife, Scotland. The 1891 census records him with his family at Telham Court. Henry aged 46 was a JP and civil engineer born at Stockwell, Jane aged 36, born at Fife. Mary aged 12 born at Tunbridge Wells, Henry aged 11 born at Sevenoaks, Reginald aged 8, Archie aged 6 and Violet. The family had eleven servants recorded. Henry McLaren Lambert was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Directories for 1909 and 1913 record him living as a Captain at the family home of Telham Court, Battle. He was Lieutenant in the Royal Dragoons in 1907 and a temporary Captain when he was killed in action in on the 13th of May 1915 when in command of the regimental machine guns, fighting in the Second Battle of Ypres. He is buried in the Hop Store Cemetery, Vlamertinghe and is remembered in Battle church on a plaque. His probate records that his estate of £26,085 1/- 10d was administered to his widowed mother Jane Lambert.
De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour records that he was gazetted as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Dragoons on the 6th of December 1899, and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 3rd of October 1900 and Captain on the 4th of October 1907. He served in the South African War 1899-1902, seeing action in the Orange River Colony June to November 1900 and August 1901 to March 1902; the Transvaal January to August 1901 and March 31st to May 1902; The Cape Colony May 1902. Following the war, he became ADC to Lord Ampthill, the Acting Viceroy of India then Earl Curzon, the Earl of Minto and then the Commander in Chief, General Sir O’Moore Creagh. He retired in 1908 and went to British East Africa but returned immediately on the outbreak of the Great War to serve with his old regiment, going to France in October 1914.
Directories for 1909 and 1913 record him living as a Captain at the family home of Telham Court, Battle. He was Lieutenant in the Royal Dragoons in 1907 and a temporary Captain when he was killed in action in on the 13th of May 1915 when in command of the regimental machine guns, fighting in the Second Battle of Ypres. He is buried in the Hop Store Cemetery, Vlamertinghe and is remembered in Battle church on a plaque. His probate records that his estate of £26,085 1/- 10d was administered to his widowed mother Jane Lambert.
De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour records that he was gazetted as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Dragoons on the 6th of December 1899, and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 3rd of October 1900 and Captain on the 4th of October 1907. He served in the South African War 1899-1902, seeing action in the Orange River Colony June to November 1900 and August 1901 to March 1902; the Transvaal January to August 1901 and March 31st to May 1902; The Cape Colony May 1902. Following the war, he became ADC to Lord Ampthill, the Acting Viceroy of India then Earl Curzon, the Earl of Minto and then the Commander in Chief, General Sir O’Moore Creagh. He retired in 1908 and went to British East Africa but returned immediately on the outbreak of the Great War to serve with his old regiment, going to France in October 1914.