Acting Leading Seaman. (Temporary.) Onboard as an Able Seaman at October 1939. Senior ASDIC rating. DSM. ((London Gazette 25 November 1941page 6772) for Operations Style and Substance) P/JX 146508. Died on HMS Legion (Buried at sea from HMS Carnation 24.10.41) Age 22 (single) Son of Frank and May of Wolverhampton . Sister Mrs. Eileen Codd. Cyril attended St Peter’s in 1931 followed by his sister a year later. Parents ran The Summerfield., New Hampton Road West, Whitmore Reans, in 1921. Butlers, who owned the pub then, had let Cyril’s parents stay there, putting up with the mess and keeping the pub open, while they did a big modernisation, kicking them out when the job was finished and putting in a younger man. Cyril’s father, Frank with wife May, moved to the Coach and Horses, Snow Hill, and later to the Criterion, in the centre of the town. Able Seaman Lambe was on the bridge at the time of the attack, and was seriously injured but swam for some time through the oily seas to be picked up by HMS Carnation. Because HMS Legion had a surgeon lieutenant on board it was decided to ship all the seriously wounded by small boat to the Destroyer. it seems that Able Seaman Lambe was still alive when picked up and that only one of the wounded died on HMS Legion. Eileen said how her brother was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and that her mother and father were invited to Buckingham Palace to the investiture. May, Eileen’s mother went forward to receive the medal from His Majesty King George IV who asked her if she was there by herself. She said, no, that her husband was in the crowd at the back of the room. His Majesty had Frank, May’s husband, brought forward and said to him. “You should be up here, to share his honour.”Frank and May Lambe, Cyril’s parents presented a pew to be placed in the Lady Chapel of St. Peter’s Church