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Lambert, John Thomas

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Locomotive driver

Lambert, John Thomas

Police Motor Driver who enlisted as a cleaner in the 8th Australian Army Service Corps and was sent to Alexandria, Egypt in December 1915, serving as a despatch rider. He proceeded France and was promoted to lance corporal in September 1916 and then to temporary corporal in February 1917. He was admitted to hospital in England for 'deformity right foot' in September 1918.

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Stephen, RD

Driver of the first train that ran on the underground line between Central and St James on 9 December 1926. He had apparently also driven the city's first electric tram, on the Randwick-Waverley line, in 1890.

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