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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Lamb Bertram
|Army number=4466998
|Rank=Corporal
|Age=24
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, Posted 11th Bn, KILLED in ACTION 27/6/44.
|Promotions=Sgt
|Died/Killed in action=27-Jun-44
|Home address=Husband of Dorothy Margaret Lamb, Furnace, Llanelly. Buried Grave IV. E. 19. Fontenay-le-Pesnel War Cemetery, Tessel.
|Source table=11DLI
}}

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 |Joined Brigade=Date not yet known.
 |Promotions=Sergeant - featured  in Sgt's Mess photo of April 1944.
-|Died/Killed in action=27-Jun-44.
+|Died/Killed in action=27-Jun-44.   Initially interred at Rauray.  Map 1/50,000 Sheet 7F/1 reference 889.656  Re-buried 30/4/1945.  Buried Grave IV. E. 19. Fontenay-le-Pesnel War Cemetery, Tessel.  Headstone inscription reads "GOD'S GREATEST GIFT, REMEMBRANCE".
-|Home address=Resident of Birmingham.  Husband of Dorothy Margaret Lamb, Furnace, Llanelly.  Buried Grave IV. E. 19. Fontenay-le-Pesnel War Cemetery, Tessel.
+|Home address=Resident of Birmingham.  Husband of Dorothy Margaret Lamb, Furnace, Llanelly.
 |Image Name=Lamb_B_11_DLI.JPG
 |Image Title=Sgt B Lamb's CWGC headstone.

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 |Rank=Corporal
 |Date of birth=Born Birmingham 1919/20.
-|Age=24
+|Age=24 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - enlistment date not yet known.  Posted 11th Bn DLI.  Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 27/6/44 while with 11th Battalion DLI.
+|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - enlistment date not yet known but possibly 1940.  Posted 11th Battalion DLI.  Served Iceland?  (Not included on Embarkation List).  Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 27/6/44 while with 11th Battalion DLI.
 |Joined Brigade=Date not yet known.
-|Promotions=Sgt.
+|Promotions=Sergeant - featured  in Sgt's Mess photo of April 1944.
 |Died/Killed in action=27-Jun-44.
 |Home address=Resident of Birmingham.  Husband of Dorothy Margaret Lamb, Furnace, Llanelly.  Buried Grave IV. E. 19. Fontenay-le-Pesnel War Cemetery, Tessel.

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 |Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - enlistment date not yet known.  Posted 11th Bn DLI.  Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 27/6/44 while with 11th Battalion DLI.
 |Joined Brigade=Date not yet known.
-|Promotions=Sgt
+|Promotions=Sgt.
-|Died/Killed in action=27-Jun-44
+|Died/Killed in action=27-Jun-44.
 |Home address=Resident of Birmingham.  Husband of Dorothy Margaret Lamb, Furnace, Llanelly.  Buried Grave IV. E. 19. Fontenay-le-Pesnel War Cemetery, Tessel.
 |Source table=11DLI
 }}
 From the information gathered it appears that Cpl Lamb was one of the many men from the Brigade who married locally when the Brigade was stationed in South Wales.