9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
17/04/1896
Died:
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age:
20
Summary
Samuel Victor Lambe was the son of Thomas Henry and Jane Lambe. He was born on 17th April 1896 in Donaghmore. The 1901 census record Samuel as a 5 year old scholar. The family were living at Mullaghconor Glebe, Donaghmore. Thomas was a retired farmer and baker. Samuel’s brother Arthur was a baker. The 1911 census shows Samuel to be 13 years old. He was a mill worker. The family was living at Lisnahull, Derrygortrevy, Tyrone. Private Samuel Victor Lambe was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action at the Somme on the 1st July 1916, age 20.
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
