Charles Lambe

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Edward Lambe, GCB, CVO (20 December 1900 – 29 August 1960) was a senior Royal Navy officer.

[2] He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1914 and was posted as a midshipman to the battleship HMS Emperor of India on 15 August 1917; he remained with her until the end of the First World War.

[2] Promoted to lieutenant commander on 15 February 1930, he attended the Royal Naval Staff College in 1931 and then joined the cruiser HMS Hawkins on the East Indies Station.

[2] Appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1944 New Year Honours, he was given command of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the British Pacific Fleet in May 1944 and survived a kamikazi attack in April 1945.

[13] Promoted to vice admiral on 1 December 1950,[14] Lambe became Flag Officer, Air (Home) at Lee-on-Solent in March 1951 and took part in the funeral of King George VI in February 1952.

The cruiser HMS Dunedin , which Lambe commanded as part of the Northern Patrol in the early part of the Second World War
The aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious , which Lambe commanded in the British Pacific Fleet later on in the Second World War