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David Lambert was born in Beverley the 14 Jul 1877 and baptised at Beverley Minster the 5 Aug 1877, he was the only son born to John and Matilda Lambert (nee Priestman).
David joined the regular army and served in the East Yorkshire Regiment as Private No: 2333. In 1901 he was recorded as an inmate of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Hound near Southampton. He left the army and took up employment as a labourer with the NER (North Eastern Railway). In 1909 he married Mary Ann Windass at Whitby. They had two children, Maurice Kenneth born 1911 and Kathleen born 1912 in Beverley, the family now living at 14 Mill Lane.
David re-enlisted in King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, where in view of his age and experience he rapidly rose to the rank of Lance-Sergeant. He arrived in France on 13 Apr 1915. Whilst serving on the Somme in Nov 1916 he received serious but unspecified wounds as reported in the Beverley Guardian of 18 Nov 1916. He was transferred to the Army Labour Corps for the rest of the war indicating that he was now considered unfit for frontline duties. He left the Army at the end of Mar 1919. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals as well as the 1914-15 Star.
David returned to do labouring work which he continued to do into his later life. In the 1939 Register he was recorded as having moved to Doncaster and was working as a “general labourer”, his railway employment possibly explaining his move to that town. He died there, aged 70, at the end of 1947.
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