Lot 870
A FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WAR GROUP OF FIVE.
A group of five comprising British War medal and Victory medal named to Lieut D.H.C. Lambart, a George V India General Service medal (Royal Mint) with Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 bar, unnamed, Defence medal and War Medal 1939-45. The WWI pair mounted as worn, with a group of three miniatures of the earlier medals mounted as worn. Together with a collection of Leicestershire Regiment buttons, badges, other similar items, a deactivated grenade and a compass.
Born on the 25th of February 1893, son of Rev. Dr C.H.Lambart. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Welsh Regiment in May 1915 and promoted to Lieutenant September 1916. Lambart was attached to the North Irish Horse in 1916, transferred to the reserve regiment of cavalry in August 1917. Captain in the Indian Army reserve from September 1919. During the Second World War he received a commission with the Leicester Regiment transferring to the Pioneer Corps in 1941. By January 1947 he was in charge of the Broughton Prisoner of War Camp in Northampton. He died on 30th January 1947 and was buried with a guard of honour of British troops and German prisoners of war. He is commemorated on the War Memorial at Hockley Heath, Solihull.
