Service Details
Name:
 CHAMBERS
Given Name:
 EDWARD CHANDOS ELLIOT
Initials:
 E C E
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Lancashire Fusiliers
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Unit:
 19th Bn.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-01
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Date of Birth:
 1896-04-04
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, leading the first wave of his men, bullet wound to head, at Athulie Wood
Additional
Information:
Son of Richard Edward Elliot Chambers and Edith Frances Chambers. Born Aliwal North, Cape Colony. Educated at Marlborough, Paris and Oxford, where he joined the Army through the O.T.C. 15th June, 1915.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 BOUZINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Grave Reference:
 I. A. 13.

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