Autor/-in: NICHOLAS LAMBERT

Nicholas Lambert spent seven years in the Army, thirty-one years in the City and then four years at university, including a Master's in the History of War at King's College, London. More importantly, in 2004, his mother handed him a leather-bound case embossed with the royal cipher; inside lay a Military Cross with a silver Bar. It had belonged to her grandfather. So began a search for the history of John Osborn Walford - the 'Old Gent'. Nicholas tracked down his grave in Worcestershire, visited his school and found the citations for his medals, won in his fiftieth year. Nicholas was inspired to discover not only the Old Gent's story, but also that of his fellow Worcestershire volunteers. Three sons of the Old Gent's fellow company commanders in their last battle on 4th November 1918 were still alive. Kindly they lent Nicholas the letters and papers of their fathers, and he grew determined to gain the skills properly to tell their stories. He uncovered the lives and contributions to county and country of many other ordinary and extraordinary officers and soldiers of the Battalion. To War with the Old Gent is his first book.