Biography of Private Albert Chambers (4838)
2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters Notts and Derby Regiment
Died 20th September 1916

Soldier

  • Name: Albert Chambers
  • Date of birth: 1889
  • Place of Birth: Weston, Lincolnshire, England
  • Date of Birth Registration: October – December 1889
  • Place of Birth Registration: Spalding, Lincolnshire, England

Father

  • Name: John Thomas Chambers
  • DOB: 1862
  • Place of Birth: Nassington, Northamptonshire, England
  • Occupation: Milkman on farm

Mother

  • Name: Dinah Emblen
  • DOB: 1863
  • Place Of Birth: Terrington, Norfolk, England
  • Marriage: 31st March 1886 Bourne, Lincolnshire

Siblings: (Name), (DOB), (POB)

  • Lucy Chambers, 1888, Weston
  • Albert Chambers, 1889, Weston
  • Florence Chambers, 1893, Weston (Died 1894)
  • Maud Mary Chambers, 1898, Cawthorpe

Census

  • 1891: Albert is living with his parents at 17 Thorney Dyke, Thorney, Cambridgeshire.
  • 1901: Albert is living with his parents at Cawthorpe, Lincolnshire.
  • 1911: Albert is living with the Ghest family at Norwood Farm, Langwith, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The census gives him an age of 21 and he is listed as a cowman.

Relatives in services

Marriage

  • No marriage for Albert has been found and because of his age we can assume that he never had the opportunity to marry.

Newspaper Mentions

  • Derby Daily Telegraph Friday 10th September 1915
    LOCAL CASUALTIES
    HEAVY LOSSES AMONG 2nd SHERWOODS.
    Expeditionary Force, reported from the base under date August 24:-
    WOUNDED
    2nd Sherwoods.
    Chambers 4838 A.

 

  • Sheffield Daily Telegraph Friday 10th September 1915
    WOUNDED
    2nd SHERWOOD FORESTERS
    Chambers (4838), A.

 

  • Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal Saturday 11th September 1915
    HEAVY LOSSES AMONG 2nd SHERWOODS.
    Expeditionary Force, reported from the base under date August 24:-
    WOUNDED – 2nd Sherwoods.
    Chambers 4838 A.

 

  • Alfreton Journal Friday 17th September 1915
    SHERWOOD FORESTERS’ CASUALTIES
    Expeditionary Force, reported from the base under date August 24th:-
    WOUNDED – 2nd Sherwoods
    Chambers 4838 A.

 

  • Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal Saturday 17th September 1915
    SHERWOOD FORESTERS’ CASUALTIES
    Expeditionary Force, reported from the base under date August 24th:-
    WOUNDED – 2nd Sherwoods
    Chambers 4838 A.

 

  • Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal Saturday 18th September 191
    SHERWOOD FORESTERS’ CASUALTIES
    Expeditionary Force, reported from the base under date August 24th:-
    WOUNDED – 2nd Sherwoods
    Chambers 4838 A.

 

  • Sheffield Daily Telegraph Saturday 14th October 1916
    DIED OF WOUNDS
    SHERWOOD FORESTERS
    Chambers (4838), A. (Bourne)

 

  • The Times Saturday October 14th 1916
    DIED OF WOUNDS
    SHERWOOD FORESTERS
    Chambers, 4838 A.

Military Records

Attestation Papers

  • Available

Soldier’s Died In The Great War

  • These records show that Private Albert Chambers, 4838, 2nd Bn, Notts and Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment was killed in action on 20th September 1916 in the Western European Theatre in France and Flanders.

Pension Records

  • Available

Effects Left To

  • Father John T Chambers
  • Co. Clara A Sheet
  • Co. Adeline Tyson

Medals

  • The British Medal
  • The Victory Medal
  • The 15 Star

Memorials

  • UK:
  • Bourne, Roll of Honour in Bourne Abbey Church
  • Bourne War Memorial in the Memorial Gardens

 

  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
  • In memory of Private Albert Chambers, 4838, 2th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby) Regiment who died on 20 September 1916 Age 26
  • Son of John Thomas and Dinah Chambers, of 11, Stanley St., Bourne, Lincs. Native of Cawthorpe, Lincs.
  • Remembered with honour, St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen
  • Grave B. 17. 21.

© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials

© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials

Military Service Timeline

  • Enlisted in Nottingham
  • Died of wounds

 

  • This is ongoing research and will be posted when completed

Sources

  • WW1 Soldier’s Records (www.ancestry.co.uk)
  • British Newspaper Archive.
  • Fold 3
  • Find My Past
  • Genealogist
  • Forces War Records
  • British Army Service Numbers
  • War Gratuity Calculator
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  • National Archives – Battalion War Diaries
  • General Registry Office