Lambert made his debut in 1940, winning the best first year junior player award for the season.
[2] He missed four years of football from 1942 to 1945 when he was serving in the Australian Army in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific during World War II.
His older brother Chris Lambert also played for Essendon.
After the death of Jack Jones on 24 March 2020, Lambert was the last surviving member of Essendon's 1946 and 1949 premiership teams.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1920s is a stub.