LAMBERT, Alexander McArthur
| Service Number: | 2133 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 January 1916, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia, 7 June 1892 |
| Home Town: | Wickham, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Sw Knee And Armpit, Belgium, 30 August 1917, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Newcastle Congregational Church, Wickham "Citizens of Wickham" Volunteers Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2133, Newcastle, New South Wales | |
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| 3 May 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2133, 1st Pioneer Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
| 3 May 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2133, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Sydney | |
| 30 Aug 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2133, 1st Pioneer Battalion, Third Ypres |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Horizon Christian School
Alexander McArthur Lambert was born in Wallsend in 1892. He embarked on the HMAT Clan McGillivray from Sydney on the 3rd of May 1916, and served between 1916-1917. Alexander held the rank of Private with service number 2133, and he was a member of the 1st Pioneer Battalion.
He was killed in action on the 30th of August 1917 at the age of 25 in Belgium, and buried at Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Reninghelst, Flanders, Belgium.
While cleaning out the Footscray-Yarraville City band’s storeroom in 2013, a band member stumbled across a damaged bass drum with a torn head. When inspecting the drum more closely the members came to realise the significance of the drum. They discovered slight markings with the name of soldiers who served overseas with the 1st AIF during World War 1.
Five soldiers wrote their name on the inside of the drum including Alexander McArthur Lambert. All the men that wrote their names in the drum were members of pioneer battalions which when they were employed usually meant they worked on building roads, trenching and gun emplacements. The inscriptions indicated that the drum was used in bands in the training camps near Salisbury Plain, England. This is where the men trained before being sent to the front in France and Belgium. Records show that Lambert was at these training camps between August and November in 1916.
After a period of training in Sutton Veny, England, Lambert joined his unit “in the field” on the 17th of November 1916. He was killed in action on 30th of November 1917 near Ypres.
An eyewitness recorded:
“…[Lambert], with others, was building eighteen pounder dugouts when the Germans started shelling; he was running for shelter in another dugout when a shell landed close beside him and wounded him so severely that he died in 10 minutes.”
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
105 years ago today, on the 30th August 1917, Private Alexander McArthur A Lambert, also known as Mac, 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion (Reg No-2133), labourer (Engineering Staff, Newcastle Council, N.S.W.), from 33 Throsby Street, Wickham, New South Wales, was Killed in action by a high explosive shrapnel shell at Zillebeke, Belgium, age 25.
No Roll of Honour circular submitted.
Born at Wallsend, New South Wales on the 7th June 1892 to Henry (died 24.2.1919) of 4 Blackall Street, Hamilton Park, N.S.W., and Jane Lambert (died 1.9.1919), Mac enlisted January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Mac is resting at Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot III Row A Grave 26.
Mr. Lambert’s name has been inscribed on the Newcastle Central Methodist Mission Roll of Honour, Newcastle Methodist Church Roll of Honour, Wickham (Hawkins Oval) Soldiers' Memorial, as J? LAMBERT, Wickham Municipal District Roll of Honour Board (1), Newcastle Protestant Alliance, Friendly Society of Australia, Lodge No-7 Roll of Honor and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at parent’s gravesite in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country during The Great War. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) D NW. 6.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
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Lest We Forget
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