Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 76

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name DOUGLAS LAMBERT (Sec Lt)

Arrive SES 1896

Lef SES 1898

Roll Number 906 Died 13:10:1915

Set / House D

Where LOOS, FRANCE Serving with 6TH, EAST KENT REGIMENT

Age 32

Buried No known grave Remembered Loos Memorial, Pas-De-Calais, France, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and the Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1883 in London, one of three SES brothers, better known as ‘Daniel’. At the School he excelled at sport although not at the game of Rugby Football, in which later he reached international level; at St. Edward’s he had not developed sufficiently to be chosen for the 1st XV. He was short and of stature and left young. He was in the Upper Moderns Form. He completed his education at Eastbourne College. After leaving his schooling, his profession is unknown but his sporting career is well catalogued. ‘He was one the brilliant band of players who brought fame to the Harlequins and incidentally did so much to revive the popularity of rugby football in London. He gained several international caps, playing for England versus Scotland and Wales in 1908, versus Wales in 1911 and versus France in 1907/8 and 1911. He was big, strong and fast with a characteristic stride that rather disguised his pace’. He also turned out for Middlesex and played soccer for the Corinthian Casuals. A married man his son was born after his death. When The Great War broke out he was commissioned as a Temporary Royal Naval Volunteer Reservist in August 1914, then in May 1915 transferred to the army as a Second Lieutenant 6th Battalion, The East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) and went to France in late 1915. He was killed in action at Loos on 13th October 1915, soon after arriving.