Description
Born 29 November 1884 at Bilton Hall, Wetherby, Yorkshire
Died 24 July 1918 (aged 33) at 22nd Combined Field Ambulance, Mesopotamia; buried near Baghdad, Iraq.
Naval Career Dates
Service/branch: Royal Navy / Seaman (Executive)
Years of service: 1899-1914 (active), 1914-1918 (retired)
Final Rank: Lieutenant / Lieutenant Commander (Retired)
Later Army Career Dates
Service/branch: Army / Honourable Artillery Company, then Royal Garrison Artillery
Years of service: 1916-1918
Final Rank: Second Lieutenant
Family
Born in 1884 at Bilton Hall, Wetherby, Yorks., the son of Charles Burgoyne Lamb and Lucy (Radcliffe). His father was a Justice of the Peace in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Career Progression
He joined the Royal Navy in September 1899, was a Midshipman aboard HMS Jupiter in Gibraltar at the date of the 1901 Census, and was later promoted to Sub-Lieutenant in 1904, then Lieutenant in December 1906. However, successive Navy Lists over the years, having initially recorded his seniority as a Lieutenant as December 1906, then show June 1907 and finally June 1908; this might reflect a loss of 6 months, then one year’s seniority for disciplinary reasons. He retired from active service in the Royal Navy in 1914 under the provisions of Order in Council 13th May 1901 but later appears in Navy Lists as a Lieutenant Commander (Retired) with seniority June 2016.
He appears to have joined the Honourable Artillery Company as a gunner, being quickly promoted lance-bombardier but was then commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery in August 1916.
He died from heatstroke in 1918 while serving in the Royal Garrison Artillery, attached to an Army Ammunition Park in Iraq. Place of death is shown as 22 Combined Field Ambulance, Mesopotamia, and he was buried in Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery.
Ships on Which Served as Recorded on the Napkin Ring
HMS Britannia: King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched 1904; sunk 1918.
(But could also mean the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth)
HMS Jupiter: Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched 1899; scrapped 1922.
HMS Glory: Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched 1898; scrapped 1919.
HMS Humber: Humber-class monitor purchased 1914; sold 1920.
HMS Cressy: Cressy-class armoured cruiser launched 1899; sunk 1914.
HMS Goliath: Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched 1898; sunk 1915.
HMS Blenheim: Blake-class protected cruiser launched 1890; depot ship 1907; sold 1926.
RN College Greenwich:
RN College Portsmouth:
HMS Albion: Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched 1898; scrapped 1919.
HMS/HMTBD Express: B-class torpedo boat destroyer (TBD) launched 1896; scrapped 1921.
HMS Fox: Astraea-class second class cruiser launched 1893; sold 1920.
HMS Antrim: Devonshire-class armoured cruiser launched 1903; sold 1922.
HMS Cæsar: Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched 1896; sold 1921.
HMS Dominion: King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched 1903; sold 1921.
