W S Lamb - Royal Horse Guards

grannysrock · Post by **grannysrock** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:13 pm

Just found out a few days ago , that my ggggrandfather's brother had a sudden ? change of occupation .
I had know he was a banking/accounting sort of person and that he was living in Perth in 1871 . I had seen the freebmd marriage index entry for a William Swan Lamb in 1879 . I knew from his dad's will that he was dead by March 1883 , but was apparently alive in Oct 1882 . But could find no more.
The new London records on Ancestry show that he married a Rose Botwright in 1879 and that his occupation was then "Corporal of Horse" in the "Royal Horse Guards" and he was living in Albany Street ( Barracks ? )

So I wondered if he maybe died in Egypt , but I can't find out more.
The codicils in his father's will are rather strange. Between Oct 1882 and March 1883 , his father had written but not executed another one , where instead of leaving William a legacy , he wanted the money to be put in trust and the interest paid to him or descendants.

I don't think there were any descendants as the last version of the will specified that William's widow should receive 5 pounds p.a. unless she remarried .

I can't find Rose either .

Oh and he was born in the Parish of Carmichael in 1845 .

Anyone any ideas how I can figure out what happened to him ?

Sally

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:40 pm

Hello Sally,

According to regiments.org the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) were in London around that time except in 1882 when with 1st Life Guards, and 2nd Life Guards, they formed the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment for the Egyptian campaign.

The Blues were away from home for less than three months. While in Egypt they were involved in the battles at Kassassin and at Tel-el-Kebir. I can’t find any mention of anyone by the name of Lamb in the casualty reports of the newspapers of the day. I can’t find a mention in those lists of anyone being killed or dying who was a soldier in the Blues.

There was an eyewitness report from the Kassassin battlefield that read “One young soldier of the Blues was lying with hands and feet partly crossed, as if asleep.” There was a later mention of a soldier of the Blues, presumably the same one, being buried, but he wasn't given a name.

Not much help,
All the best,
Alan

grannysrock · Post by **grannysrock** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:45 am

Thanks Allan
I can't find him on SP, GRO or the overseas army indexes on FMP either. Or in the Gazette . Nor is he mentioned in connection with the Egypt campaign.
There's no guarantee he hadn't left the Blues and gone elsewhere .
But I have found a Rose Lamb of the right age (re) marrying in London in 1884 , so it's a little strange.
Have sent an email of to the museum - nothing ventured nothing gained !

Sally