WW2 Heroine Christian Lamb Turns 100
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Christian Lamb has had a remarkable life. The daughter of an admiral, she served in the navy during the war and went on to become an expert in horticultural history. Dan visited her the day after her 100th birthday to learn about her wartime experiences.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, Markham's Dan Snow's History, you're going to love this podcast. This is an |
| 0:03.5 | interview with the truly remarkable Christian Lamb. She turned 100 on the day that I interviewed her |
| 0:10.9 | and she told me all about her experiences in the Second World War. She served in the Navy during |
| 0:16.5 | the war. She married a naval officer. She worked in the plotting room in Belfast for the Navy |
| 0:23.6 | as her husband's convoy was under vicious attack from wolf packs and news was coming in all the |
| 0:28.7 | time about the ship that her husband was serving on in the wind blasted North Atlantic. It's very, |
| 0:33.8 | very dramatic. I learned all about her wartime experiences and got a few life lessons from her as |
| 0:38.5 | well. A total legend, a huge honour to have on the pod and a very happy 100th birthday to the |
| 0:44.2 | Second World War hero in Christian Lamb. This interview with Christian Lamb will shortly be |
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| 1:14.8 | enjoy Christian Lamb. I met Christian Lamb in her apartment in the middle of London a day after |
| 1:26.0 | she turned 100. As a young woman, her father was an admiral and she had no doubt that she wanted |
| 1:32.1 | to serve. I was born in Rome, my father was in the ship, who would HMS TIDA at the time. Famous ship? |
| 1:38.8 | Famous ship. Famous ship. And then we moved about following the fleet always so we were never |
| 1:43.2 | really settled anywhere. And was your father at Jutland on Tiger? He was at Gallipoli. |
| 1:48.4 | Okay. And he said he was sunk three times in one day without getting his feet with. |
| 1:54.2 | So that was rather cool. So the naval tradition was strong in your family? |
| 1:57.6 | Oh very. Yes and then my husband of course was the navy, so |
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