Second Lieutenant Jack Fellows LAMBERT (1910)

9th (Service) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Born 3 September 1891 in Coombe, near Malden, Surrey
Killed in action 30 July 1915, aged 23
Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West Flanders, Belgium.

Jack Lambert was the eldest son of Ernest Orger Lambert and May, née Fellows, of 23 Terlingham Gardens, Folkestone, Kent.

He was educated at Marlborough College, and came up to Merton in 1910. Before the war he spent two years managing a coconut estate in Kelantan, in the Malay States (modern-day Malaysia).

He was commissioned on 23 April 1915, and served in France and Belgium.

He was reported missing in action at Hooge in Flanders, Belgium, on 30 July 1915. His death was not officially confirmed until March the following year.