General Sir John Lambert, G.C.B. entered the army as an Ensign in the First Foot Guards in January, 1791; he was promoted to the rank of Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel on the 9th October 1793; he served in the campaign of 1793 in Flanders, was present at the siege of Valenciennes, the action of Lincelles, and the siege of Dunkirk. He served also with the Foot Guards in Ireland during the rebellion in 1798. In 1799 he embarked with the expedition to Holland, and was present in the actions of the 27th August, 10th and 19th September, and 2nd and 6th October of that year. He embarked for the Peninsula and served with Lieut.-General Sir John Moore in 1808 and 1809, and was present with him at the battle of Corunna. In 1809 he commanded the Light Companies of the First and Third Brigades of Foot Guards in the expedition to the Scheldt, and attained the rank of Colonel on 25th July, 1810. In May 1811 he embarked in command of the Third Battalion of the Grenadier Guards for Cadiz, from whence he proceeded in January 1812 with a Brigade to Carthagena. He returned to Cadiz on the 15th April, and assumed the command of the Reserve in the Isla de Leon, and in October of that year he joined the main army at Salamanca. He was promoted to the rank of Major-General on the 4th June, 1813, and was appointed to the Staff of the Army under Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula; he commanded a Brigade in the Sixth Division at the Battles of Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse, for which he received the distinction of a Cross. He was subsequently appointed to the Staff of the Division of the Army sent to America in 1814, and took part in the attack on New Orleans in January 1815, and at the siege of Fort Bowyer; he succeeded to the command of that division of the Army on the deaths of Major-Generals Pakenham and Gibbs. He returned from America in the spring of 1815, and arrived in sufficient time to take the command of a Brigade in the campaign of 1815, and to participate in the victory obtained at Waterloo. He was appointed to the colonelcy of the 10th Regiment of Foot on the 18th January 1824; he attained the rank of Lieutenant-General on 27th May 1825, and that of General on 23rd November 1841. In addition to the order of G.C.B., he was a Knight of the Third Class of Wladimir of Russia, and Commander of the Bavarian order of Maximilian Joseph. His decease took place on the 14th September 1847.
Sir Thomas M'Mahon, Bart. and K.C.B.
Appointed from 94th Regiment, 28th September, 1847.
APPENDIX.
Battles, Sieges, &c., in the Netherlands, during the reign of King William III., from 1689 to the Peace of Ryswick, in 1697.
| Battle of Walcourt | 25 | August | 1689 |
| ———— Fleurus | 4 | July | 1690 |
| Mons surrendered to the French | 10 | April | 1691 |
| Namur ditto ditto | 20 | June | 1692 |
| Battle of Steenkirk | 3 | August | —— |
| Furnes and Dixmude captured | — | Sept. | —— |
| The French lines at D'Otignies forced | 10 | July | 1693 |
| Battle of Landen | 29 | July | —— |
| Surrender of Huy | 17 | Sept. | 1694 |
| Attack on Fort Kenoque | 9 | June | 1695 |
| Dixmude surrendered to the French | 16 | July | —— |
| Namur retaken by King William III. | 25 | July | —— |
| Citadel of Namur surrendered | 5 | Sept. | —— |
| Treaty of Ryswick signed | 11 | Sept. | 1697 |