Edward Lamb
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Lt. Col. Edward "Eddie" J. Lamb, ED, was the Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Regiment from 2002 to 2006.
Born and raised in Bermuda, Lamb was schooled at Berkeley Institute, a public high school located in the city of Hamilton, and attended the Bermuda College. By 2002, he was married with two children.
Unlike many members of the Regiment, Lamb was not conscripted, but rather volunteered into the service in 1980. Nine years later, he was awarded a commission. As an officer, he would fulfil a number of roles, including that of Officer Commanding of Training Company and A Company, as well as being appointed to the position of Special Project Officer.
From 1992 until 1994, Lamb served as the Aide-de-Camp to Governor Lord Waddington, and from 1997 to 2000 he served as Adjutant.
In 2002, then-Major Lamb was selected as the replacement for Lt. Col. David Gibbons as CO of the Regiment. Among Lamb's first duties were to continue to heal racial divides within the Regiment, as well as ensure that it adapted successfully to its new roles in disaster relief and community service.[1] He also emphasised training in counter-terrorism.[2] In 2004, at the end of his two-year tenure as CO, Lamb was granted a second term by the Governor.
A key element of his position as CO has been to defend conscription, which he has attempted to strictly enforce. Though initially he suggested making the practice mandatory for all men upon reaching the age of 18,[3] he later supported the physical ability requirements, as well as the exclusion of women.[4] In 2005, he notified the Bermuda Independence Commission that, should Bermuda go independent, it would need a body of 100 full-time soldiers. This report was disowned as an "opinion" by the Defence Department,[5] and in many ways contradicts earlier statements by Lamb[6], where he opposed the idea of switching to a professional force, particularly due to costs.
Lamb has completed a number of advanced training courses outside of Bermuda, including the All Arms Tactics Course, the Platoon and the Junior Command and Staff Courses in Jamaica, and the Territorial Army Command and Staff Course, at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in England.[7] He has also received a number of awards, such as the Efficiency Decoration that grants him a post-nominal suffix, and a special award from the Caribbean Command and Staff College in Jamaica in late 2005. [8]
On February 16, 2006, it was announced that Major William White would be replacing Lamb as the Commanding Officer of the Regiment as of May 27 of the same year.
Not to be confused with the identically named Edward J Lamb of Liverpool, United Kingdom who lives and works as as a full time graphic designer. [9]
