Lieutenant George Lambert (1819

Name	George, LAMBERT
Rank	Lieutenant
Force	84th Regiment (later The York & Lancaster Regiment)
VC	Indian Mutiny,- 29 July at Onao - 16 August at Bithoor - 25 September at Lucknow Residency 1857
London Gazette	18 June 1858
Born	Market Hill, Co Armagh, 16 December 1819
Died	10 February 1860, Hillesborough Barracks, Sheffield
Grave	Wardsend Cemetery, Sheffield
Location of VC	York & Lancaster Regiment Museum, Rotherham
Notes	DCM

Digest of Citation reads: Sergeant Major Lambert (Indian Mutiny)
For Distinguished bravery whilst serving, in three Battles, with Havelock's Column at Oonao, Bithoor and at the assault and capture of Lucknow, India.
(i) On the 29th July, 1857 at Oonao, India, Sergeant-Major Lambert acted with Distinguished bravery.
(ii) At Bithoor when the rebels were driven from a strong position, using bayonets on 16th August 1857.
(iii) On the 25th of September 1857 at the passage through Lucknow, India, after its capture, to the Residency.
* York and Lancaster Regiment

George Lambert was promoted to Lieutenant on 17th December, 1858. He was the Adjutant of the 84th Regiment from 12th December 1857-17th September, 1858.

According to the website of the Friends of Wardsend Cemetery, George died whilst on the parade ground at *Hillsborough Barracks from the breaking of a blood vessel. His grave is in the Cemetery at Wardsend. His funeral took place eight days after his death on 18th February 1860. The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent attended the funeral and noted "The ceremony was conducted with military honours, the band if the regiment marching at the head of the procession and playing the Dead March ... his charger was led after the body bearing his masters boots reversed. The usual volleys were fired over the grave at the conclusion of the service and the procession then returned to the barracks"

Like many other graveyards in the city, Wardsend Cemetery is in a terrible state of repair. I feel sure that George's memorial deserves a better fate.

* A local website states that "Hillsborough Barracks was completed in 1854, having begun in 1848. Costing £124,000 and covering an area of 22½ acres, it was the largest war depot in the country. Built mainly of solid stone blocks, with walls reaching four feet thick in places, it was essentially a fortified town. Within the walls were a fully equipped hospital, general stores, farriers shop, joiners shop, smithies, gymnasium, sidemakers shop, tailors shop, saddler, tables, baths, a ball court, a rifle range, a great riding school, and many other buildings..."