Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

A Great War O.B.E. group of three awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Lambert, Royal Marine Light Infantry

The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 1st type; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col., R.M.L.I.); Coronation 1902, silver, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) £150-200

O.B.E. London Gazette 12 September 1919.

John Hamilton Lambert was born at Liverpool on 25 January 1867, and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Marines on 1 February 1887; Lieutenant, 24 March 1888; Captain, 6 September 1896; Major, 3 April 1905; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 3 March 1912; Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel, 11 September 1917; Lieutenant-Colonel, 12 Aigist 1918; Colonel, retired, 25 January 1922. Fluent in French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese, he served with the Legation Guard at Pekin, 1894-95. He served as Paymaster to the Chatham Division from 1912, and was awarded the O.B.E. for valuable services as Paymaster Chatham. Colonel Lambert died on 24 March 1925.