Rose Catherine Lamb

Rose was born in the spring of 1891, the seventh of ten children born to Francis and Mary Lamb. The family lived close to New Lane but later moved to Londesborough Street. Here, the family of twelve shared a small, two bedroom terraced house at a time when four of the ten siblings were over the age of eighteen and the youngest was just two years old. The eldest child, Bernard, joined the war effort as part of the Lincolnshire Regiment’s Labour Corps. He died of gastritis after being deemed unfit for service and is buried in Selby Cemetery.

Rose’s elder brother John also enlisted in January of 1916 and served in France for 3 months before being transferred to the labour corps back in the UK. He survived the war.

A month after the death of her brother Bernard, Rose joined the war effort herself as a Ward Orderly at the Peak Hotel Military Hospital in Buxton, where she stayed until at least a year after peace was declared in November 1918. After returning to Yorkshire she married her husband, Amos Garner, in 1922.

We Will Remember Her.