Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain H. Lambert, Bengal-Nagpur Railway Regiment

Delhi Durbar 1911; Jubilee 1935; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Capt. H. Lambert, 1-B.N. Ry. R., A.F.I.), officially impressed naming, mounted court-style with new ribands but on original wearing bar, good very fine or better (3) £140-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Bengal-Nagpur Railway Regiment

Henry Lambert was born in Nether Hallam, Yorkshire in February 1881 and educated at Perse Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Having then acted as an Assistant Master at Felsted School, he entered the Indian Civil Service (Education Department) in November 1907, initially as an Inspector of Schools in Bengal, but from 1912 in Bihar & Orissa - he was awarded his Delhi Durbar Medal for services in connection with the celebrations in the District of Chinsurah. Then in July 1915, he was appointed Acting Principal of Ravenshaw College at Cuttack and, from January 1924, Director of Public Instruction, Bihar & Orissa. Four years later, he was employed on special duty by the Education Department of India, in which capacity he remained employed until his retirement in February 1936, latterly having acted as Principal of Patna College

Lambert was also a keen member of the Indian Volunteers, originally having been commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the East Coast Volunteer Rifles in March 1917. Subsequently transferring to the Bengal-Nagpur Railway Regiment, he gained advancement to Captain in April 1926 and was awarded his Indian Volunteer Force Long Service Medal in IAO 152 of 7 March 1928. Brief appointments followed in the Chota Nagpur Regiment and the Bihar Light Horse, and he resigned his commission in January 1931. But he added the Jubilee Medal to his accolades in 1935, as a member of the Education Department of India. Lambert retired to Bath, where he died in September 1966, aged 85 years; sold with original forwarding letter for the Delhi Durbar Medal, dated 23 April 1912, and Viceregal Lodge, Simla, certificate of award for the Jubilee Medal 1935, together with a quantity of related research.