Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant A. W. Lambert, Northumberland Fusiliers, later Lord Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and subsequently knighted

Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Coronation 1937; French Croix de Guerre 1914-18, with palme; Reconnaissance Francaise, gilt medal with rosette, mounted Court style as worn, good very fine (6)

Knight Bachelor London Gazette 3 June 1930. ‘Late Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North East Coast Exhibition and for services in connection with schemes for the migration of labour and for miners welfare.’

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Sir Arthur William Lambert was born in 1876 and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was elected a City Councillor in 1910, served during the Great War 1916-19, and became Lord Mayor of his home town Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1926, a post which he held for one year. During WW2 he was Northern Regional Commander of the Civil Defence scheme. Sir Arthur died in October 1948, and was additionally entitled to the Norwegian Order of St Olaf, 1st class.