In Memory Of
CHAMBERS, EDWARD CHANDOS ELLIOT
Service Details
Age:
20
Date of Birth:
1896-04-04
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Unit:
19th Bn.
Unit 2:
"A" Coy.
Regiment:
Lancashire Fusiliers
Date of Death:
1916-07-01
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, leading the first wave of his men, bullet wound to head, at Athulie Wood
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
I. A. 13.
Cemetery:
BOUZINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Localitly:
Somme
Country:
France
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.
