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Mervyn Theodore Lamb was born in Ireland on 22 May 1915, the son of Wing Commander the Reverend Percy Cecil Chalmers Lamb and Kate Avarina (née James). He entered Worcester College on 11 October 1935, and graduated with a pass degree in 1939.
Mervyn Lamb was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 8 August 1942 and later transferred to the East Surrey Regiment, joining the 1st Battalion in North Africa on 20 December 1942. 2nd Lieutenant Mervyn Lamb was killed during the Battle of Oued Zarga on 7 April 1943, aged 28.
Mervyn Lamb is buried at Beja War Cemetery in Tuniia and commemorated on the war memorial at Worcester College, Oxford.