Ernest Alwyn Chambers

Sergeant 79994. 6th Armoured Car Company. Machine Gun Corps. (Motors) attached Dunster Force.

Born:7th February 1889. Whitestones, Stocksmoor.

Son of Arthur W. and Martha.

Baptised: 17th November 1889, St. Thomas's Church, Thurstonland.

Brother of Arnold, Eleanor and Emma.

Married Lilian Grace Redman 19th August 1911.

Address: Bank Foot, Almondbury.

Father of Mary b. 1912. James b. 1913. and Ruby b. 1917.

Occupation: Motor Driver at Taylor & Littlewood Ltd. Newsome Mills

Enlisted in Halifax on 11th March 1918.

Died 19th September 1918. Aged 28.

Commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Mesopotamia. (now Iraq) Panel 42.

Died of Typhus in Mesopotamia, and has no known grave.

The Basra Memorial commemorates more than 40,500 members of Commonwealth Forces who died in the operations in Mesopotamia from Autumn 1914 to August 1921 and whose graves are not known.

The memorial was originally on the main dockyard at Maqil, but was moved by the presidential decree of Saddam Hussein. The move was carried out by authorities in Iraq, and involved a considerable amount of manpower, costs and sheer engineering on their part. It had now been erected in its entirety. Due to the present climate of instability the CWWG Commission is not able to maintain the site. A roll of Honour has been is on display at their HQ in Maidenhead.

His name is also on the Almondbury War Memorial, Taylor & Littlewoods memorial and the Roll of Honour in St. John's Church, Golcar.