Maj.-Gen. Sir William Lambton, KCB

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• First name(s) William
• Last name Lambton
• Year 1914-20
• Service number -
• Rank Brigadier General, Major General
• Second rank Major General
• Regiment Staff
• Second corps Staff
• Service record Rank: Brigadier General, Corps: Staff
• Second service record Rank: Major General, Corps: Staff
• Image link http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D3288520
• Country Great Britain
• Medal type British Army Medal Index Cards, 1914-1920
• Archive reference WO372/11

Born the son of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham[1] and educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College Sandhurst,[2] Lambton was commissioned a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards in February 1884.[3] He was promoted captain on 18 May 1892, and became Aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Ireland in 1895, before he served with the Egyptian Army.[3] He took part in the Nile expedition of 1898 and fought at the Battle of Atbara and the Battle of Omdurman, and was promoted to major on 29 September 1898.[3] He served as Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief of the Transvaal in the early part of the Second Boer War,[1] and was Military Secretary to Lord Milner, High-Commissioner for Souther Africa, from December 1900, with the local rank of lieutenant-colonel.[4] He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Coldstream Guards in 1912, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General for London District in 1913 and Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force at the beginning of the European War before becoming General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1915.[3] He retired in 1920.[3]