Rank unknown Sidney Elijah Lambert

1. Private, 50th Battalion, Infantry (Army). 1915-06-18 ?
2. Rank unknown (Army). 1918-06-10 ?

Son of Edwin Charles Lambert and Elizabeth Lambert (nee Young); husband of Irene Pearl Lambert (nee Courtice) married March 30, 1920

The shrapnel wound that he suffered August 23, 1916 resulted in amputation of his left leg above the knee

Chaplain and Honorary Captain attested at Whitby Military Hospital, October 9, 1918. Christie Street Hospital (Toronto) Padre in October, 1937. Quoted in article regarding death of Joseph Collins, another 50th Battalion veteran, Toronto Star October 18, 1937.

Toronto Star - 10 November 1917:

Minister Learns Mechanics
Motor mechanics as a course supplementary to the business of a "Sky Pilot" is Pte. Lambert's idea of efficiency, and in his case it may mean the salvation of many souls. Pte. Lambert before the war was the Rev. Lambert, ministering to the spiritual needs of scattered Methodist communities over an area of thirty miles in Alberta. When the call to war came he doffed the cloth for khaki and joined the ranks of one of the first battalions. Today he is a patient in the Orthopedic Hospital in Toronto minus a leg, but as ambitious to fulfill his mission as the day he left college.

To preach the gospel in the West, one must travel far in the outlying districts, and the necessity for getting around was a problem until he hit upon the idea of motor mechanics.

Toronto Star - 15 April 1918:

Returned Soldiers' Service.
"The men at the Somme, Vimy and Ypres showed us how to live and they showed us how to die," declared Sergt. Sidney Lambert, at College street Methodist Church yesterday, to a large crowd of returned soldiers.

Toronto World - 25 April 1918:

Pte. (Rev.) Sydney Lambert is to be the speaker at the Men's Own at the Central Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon. Pte. Lambert was wounded and lost a limb at the battle of the Somme, and will shortly leave Toronto on a speaking tour of the United States.

50th Battalion Nominal Roll

Toronto Star - October 18, 1937 Pg 23, column 1.