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CHAMBERS, Gordon Enoch John

Subjects

  • WW1
Author: 
Jill Fenwck
Family name: 
CHAMBERS
Given names: 
Gordon Enoch John
Gender: 
Male
Religion: 
Church of England
Date of birth: 
1 June 1893
Place of birth: 
Birth Prahran
, Australia
37° 50' 59.2656" S, 144° 59' 23.4492" E
East Melbourne addresses
Year: 
1914
1917
151 Grey Street
, East Melbourne, Victoria
, Australia
37° 48' 42.3108" S, 144° 59' 3.3576" E
Military service: 
WW1
Regimental number: 
2983
Rank: 
Private/Air Mechanic 2nd Class
Military units: 
Australian Flying Corps, November 1917 Reinforcement
Place of death: 
Death
228 Dawson Street
, Ballarat
, Australia
37° 34' 2.514" S, 143° 51' 6.9444" E
Decorations and medallions: 
British War Medal, Victory Medal, 1914-15 Star
Biographical notes: 

Gordon Chambers was the son of Ernest Enoch Chambers and his wife Alice Maud, nee Carter. He was 23 years old at the tmie he enlisted on 15 January, 1918, and working as a Commercial Traveller. He had married in 1916, when he was 21, to Elsie Kent Wade, but they did not appear to be living together: he was at 151 Grey St., East Melbourne, while she was living in Whitehorse Rd., Blackburn. 

He was attached to the Australian Flying Corps, November 1917 Reinforcements, leaving Melbourne on HMAT 'Nestor' A71 on 28 February and disembarking at Liverpool, England, on 20 April, 1918. From here, he was sent ot the Australian Flying Corps Depot at Wendover on 25 June, 1918, before being transferred in July to the No. 2-To Squadron AFC. This was located at Leighton. He remained at Leighton until 6 May, 1919, when he was returned to Australia on board the 'Kaiser-i-hind', which must have been handed over as part of war reparations from the German fleet. Gordon Chambers disembarked at Melbourne on 16 June, 1919. At this stage, Elsie Kent Chambers was living in Toorak.

In 1924, Gordon Chambers was working as a mechanic and living with Alice Ann at 11 Byron St., St Kilda. The marriage does not come up on the Marriage Index site on Ancestry.com.au. By 1916, they had moved to 228 Dawson St., Ballarat, where he worked as a salesman, They were still there when Gordon Chambers died in 1962, aged 69. Alice Ann was still living in their family home in 1963.

 

 

Plane used by No. 2 Squadron AFC
Acknowledgments: 

Australian War Memorial Embarkation Roll, photograph

Australian National Archives Service Record

Ancestry.com.au, Electoral Rolls, Births, Deaths and Marriages

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