Edgar Allan Lambart

Edgar Allan Lambart was the son of Hon. Oliver W Lambart RN. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery on 19 August 1875. After service in the Afghan War (1878-80) and in South Africa (1901), he was later CRA London Territorials (April 1908-March 1909) and CRA 2nd London Division, TF (April 1909-April 1910). He retired in the rank of colonel on 1 April 1910.

He returned to the colours on the outbreak of war, was promoted brigadier-general and charged with raising and training the artillery of a new formation, 15th (Scottish) Division. He was replaced on 25 August 1915 within six weeks of the division’s deployment to France, a month before the division’s baptism of fire at the battle of Loos. He was 58; his successor, Brigadier-General E W Alexander VC, was fourteen years younger.

Colonel Lambart later commanded a Divisional Ammunition Column and was made a CB in 1917.