Lamb Bertram Corporal 4466998
Personnel Entry
Name Lamb Bertram
Army number 4466998
Rank Corporal
Decorations
Date of birth Born Birmingham 1919/20.
Age 24 at the time of his death.
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.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade Date not yet known.
Promotions Sergeant - featured in Sgt's Mess photo of April 1944.
Wounded
Prisoner of War
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.
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.
