Ajax Veterans Street Dedication: Lambard Crescent
Description
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- Description
- Street Name: Lambard Crescent
Name of Veteran: William Walter Lambard 1919-Dec. 13, 1939
Rank: Royal Marine
Ship Served: HMS Ajax
Date of Service on Ship: 1939
Year of Visit/Dedication: November 2000
Veteran or Family Visit: n/a
Veteran of the Battle of the River Plate: Yes
Died at Battle: Yes
William was born in 1919 to Walter and Kate Lambard. He was one of the seven men who died while serving the Ajax at the Battle of the River Plate. William was twenty years old.
A tree was planted by council in memory of Royal Marine Lambard under the Millennium Tree Planting Project. The dedication ceremony was held as part of the nearby Southwood Public School’s Remembrance Day activities on November 10, 2000. - Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8332196743104 Longitude: -79.0087615765381
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Original document and image located in the Ajax Archives.
- Contact
- Ajax Public LibraryEmail:libraryinfo@ajaxlibrary.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:55 Harwood Avenue S.
Ajax, Ontario
L1S 2H8
