William George Lambert

Known as George, his family were genuinely surprised that he had been involved in Auxiliary Units, as he seemed a pacifist in his views and very much a ‘church going’ man.
His son stated that his father had always worked on the farm and did not talk of his wartime role but then said something very odd; he said that his father had been watching a programme about Paris, and mentioned that he’d spent some time there late in the war.
His son had pressed him on this but George never revealed why or when he’d been there.
He recalled his father was a very good shot and could take down a running rabbit, again a skill that he never thought ‘fitted’ with his father’s persona.
He also recalled his father getting one of his old friends round ‘to get rid of an oak tree on the land, by blowing it up’.
The tree had been blown up, and windows blown out in the local church as a result.