PLAYFAIR Lambert

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Lambert Playfair was a pupil at Oakham School between 1905 and 1910 and was the son of Sir Harry and Lady Jessie Playfair who lived at Gloucester Terrace in Hyde Park, London and who had previously been based in India. Lambert won a prize cadetship to Sandhurst in 1912 and was gazetted to the 1st Battalion, Royal Scots in January 1913, a year and a half before the First World War began. He transferred

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Born 1893.Won a prize Cadetship to Sandhurst from Oakham School (1905-10).Buried in Grave B9, Hospital Farm Cemetery, Elverdinghe, near Ypres (photo attached).
By BN on Tuesday 17th June '14 at 5:42pm
3 images Some pictures of the headstone, taken 13 December 2014
By John Stokes on Saturday 13th December '14 at 10:30pm
A Rutlander, living in Belgium
 

Rutland and The Battle of the Somme

More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.

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