Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (William Benjamin Lambert) small spots of verdigris, otherwise very fine £70-£90

William Benjamin Lambert, a native of Sapphire, Queensland, was born in Hampstead, London in 1887 and emigrated to Australia in 1909. He attested for the Australian Imperial Force at Rockhampton, Queensland, on 19 August 1914, and embarking from Brisbane on H.M.A.T. Omrah on 24 September 1914, served as a Company Sergeant Major with the 49th Australian Infantry Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 24 November 1916, and is buried in Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers, France.