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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Lamb John Douglas
|Army number=10571260
|Rank=Private/Craftsman.
|Decorations=Mentioned in Despatches - gazetted 4/4/1946.  Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palms 1940 - Gazetted 17/10/1946.  1939/45 Star.  France and Germany Star.  Defence Medal.  War Medal 1939/45.   
|Date of birth=Born Stranraer 17/9/1922.
|Age=78 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Territorial Army - 4/11/1941 in Dumfries.  Posted to No. 3 Training Battalion 4/11/1941.  Posted to 68th Section 16/2/1942 (presumably after initial Basic Training).  Posted to Workshops - Bradford - 18/2/1942.  Attached to No.11 Technical Training Centre 28/4/1942.  Attachment to No. 11 Technical Training Centre ceased 28/5/1942.  Attached to 68th Section 28/6/1942. Posted to 70 Brigade Base Ordnance Depot (it is thought that this should read 70th Brigade Ordnance Company) 2/7/1942.   Transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 17/3/1943.  Posted to 70th Infantry Brigade Workshops 17/3/1943.  (REME Tracer Card not found).  Served in Normandy and North Western Europe.  Posted to No. 3 Light Workshops Company 1/1/1946.  Permanently attached to 1/7th Middlesex Regiment 21/9/1946.  Returned to the UK 1/11/1946.  Relegated to Royal Army Reserve 25/1/1947.  Demoobilised - Conduct Exemplary.  Discharged from Reserve Liability 30/6/1959 under the Navy, Army and Air Forces Reserve Act 1959.
|Company/Battery=Brigade Ordnance Company and then R.E.M.E. Workshop.
|Task or role=Vehicle recovery and repair.
|Promotions=Appointed Lance Corporal 4/5/1942.  Reverted to Private 28/5/1942.  Appointed Lance Corporal 12/8/1942.  Passed Standard Trade Test as Vehicle Mechanic Group "A" Class III 21/12/1945.  War Substantive Corporal 21/3/1946.  Passed Standard Trade Test as Vehicle Mechanic Class II 22/3/1946.  Appointed Acting Sergeant 13/6/1946.  
|Joined Brigade=17/3/1943 (although almost certainly worked in the Brigade Ordnance Company from 2/7/1942, before his transfer to R.E.M.E.).
|Died/Killed in action=Died 25/12/2000 aged 78.
|Home address=Married Agnes Wilson 8/12/1943.  The couple had three children.
|Source table=70BG
}}

We are indeed grateful to Sgt Lamb's son for the information above, which supplemented that extracted from the Manpower Returns.  Much of the detail came from MoD Records at Hayes.