Name
Charles Colhoun Chambers (MC)
21/06/1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/07/1916
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Garrison Artillery
12th Siege Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
QUARRY CEMETERY, MONTAUBAN
III. L. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS BROTHER H.M. CHAMBERS 23RD R.F. KILLED AT IRLES MARCH 10TH 1917
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial,
All Saints Church Memorial, Kings Langley,
Chambers Memorial Window, All Saints Church, Kings Langley,
Langleybury Village Memorial,
Berkhamsted Collegiate School Memorial,
Not on the Berkhamsted War Memorial
Pre War
Charles Colhoun Chambers was born on 21st June 1890, in Montreux, Switzerland, (a British Subject), son of Col. Charles Patton Chambers (1836 – 1927) a retired Infantry Colonel and Henrietta Caroline Chambers (1834 – 1916) (nee Maunsell-Eyre). The youngest of Four children, Caroline (B 1872), Mary (B 1878) and Henry (B 1888). 1891 Census records Charles aged 1, living with his parents and three siblings in Leeds Street, Sandown Isle of Weight, Hampshire. The family had three live-in Domestic Servants, a Nurse, Cook, and Housekeeper. By 1901 Charles and the family had moved and were now living at “Manor Villa”, Manor Street, Berkhamsted, Berks/Herts. With two live-in Domestic Servants.
Charles attended Berkhamsted Collegiate School, leaving in 1907.
It is not known when Charles enlisted into the Army, but the 1911 census records Charles as a Lieutenant, Single, aged 21, and serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery, stationed at The Shoebury Garrison in Essex.
Wartime Service
Not a lot is known about Charles’s War Service other than he was a Captain in the 12th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Arrived in France on 14th March 1915. Awarded the Military Cross for exemplary Act(s) of bravery. Killed in Action on 10th July 1916, aged 27. He is buried in the CWGC Quarry Cemetery, Montauban, Somme, France. Grave Ref; III. L. 8.
Charles's Headstone carries an inscription to his brother Lance Corporal SPTS/631 Henry Maunsell Chambers, who was Killed in Action on 10th March 1917.
Additional Information
His father, Col. C. P. Chambers, Zoffany House, Kings Langley, Herts. ordered his headstone inscription: "ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS BROTHER H.M. CHAMBERS 23RD R.F. KILLED AT IRLES MARCH 10TH 1917".
The value of his effect were £2-14s-4d, Pay Owing and £57, War Gratuity which went to his father Col. Charles Patton Chambers, Zoffany House, Kings Langley, Herts.
His brother Lance Corporal SPTS/631 Henry Maunsell Chambers of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was killed in Action on the 10th March 1917.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
