Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

From How We Served

The final resting place for; - 3295 Private Lambert Andrew Whitty who had immigrated to Australia from New Zealand prior to the outbreak of hostilities and was employed as a grocer when he enlisted for War Service on the 27th of July 1915.

Lambert was allocated to reinforcements for the 24th Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for Egypt and further training on the 20th of November. Lambert was formally transferred and taken on strength with the 8th Battalion on the 24th of February 1916. By May Lambert had arrived in France and was entered in the trenches, where he remained on duty until he was wounded in action on the 18th of August due to a bullet wounded to his right forearm. Lambert was evacuated to England for hospitalisation arriving on the 30th of August.

After prolonged periods of treatment for his wounds and then with his time as a convalescent Lambert was deemed an invalid and could not be returned to Active Service so instead, he was repatriated back to Australia, departing England on the 21st of July 1917. Following his return Lambert would undergo further treatment for his injuries caused whilst in Northern France and was formally discharged from the 1st AIF on the 12th of December 1917 and was returned into civilian life.

Lambert’s personal health deteriorated following this and he was admitted into the Military Mental Asylum and its Sanitorium at Mont Park on the 13th of March 1928 with his been recorded as being admitted due to his earlier War Service where he had contracted tuberculosis. By the 25th September 1928 he was recorded as having been discharged from Mont Park.

On the 6th of June 1929 Lambert was returned, and he was readmitted into Mont Park with his tuberculosis been cited as the primary cause. Lambert was still recorded as being in residence when he passed on the 19th of August 1937 following which he was formally interred within Fawkner Cemetery, Victoria.