Chambers. Albert Edward

The son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Chambers of Hoyland, he was born in Barnsley, lived in Barnsley and enlisted at Chatham on the 11th August 1915, he embarked Southampton for France on the 14th February 1917.

He died of wounds on the 17th March, 1918, while serving on the Western Front.

Memorial Plaque, St Peter's Church, Tankersley

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Plaque  reads,

For God and Country
Their Name Liveth for Evermore

In proud and
greateful memory of the gallant
men of Tankersley who fell in
The Great War 1914 - 19

"But the men were very good
unto us, and we were not hurt,
they were a wall unto us
both by night and day" 

Picture by George Horner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Albert Edward Chamber's grave,

Etaples Military Cemetery,
Pas de Calais, France.

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I Die for
My King and Country
O Lord I come to Thee 

Picture by Jean and George Horner

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