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Second Lieutenant Ernest Edwin LAMB, 3rd Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (attached 9th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers), killed in action,  26th September 1916, age 25.

Son of Edwin Daniel Lamb, M.B.E., R.N., and Kate Teresa Florence Lamb, of 60, Stephens Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Also served with the 9th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers at Gallipoli and in Egypt.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France.

London Gazette 28th May 1915.

The under mentioned to be Second Lieutenants (on probation). Dated 29th May, 1915.

Ernest Edwin Lamb, 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

London Gazette 25th November 1915.

The undermentioned Second Lieutenants (on probation) are confirmed in their rank.

The Royal West Kent Regiment.  Ernest Edwin Lamb.