Private Walter Chambers

Army Number: 26784

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Hasland, Derbyshire. Son of Samuel and Ellen Chambers, of 153, Mansfield Road, Hasland, Derbyshire. He was a platelayer prior to enlisting on 31st May 1916 at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He went to France on 6th March 1916 and suffered mustard gas poisoning and was admitted to 53 General hospital Boulogne, on 17th November 1917. He was transferred to England on Hospital Ship Princess Elizabeth, on 21st November 1917 and died at Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury, near St. Albans, on 23rd November 1917, aged 23.

Buried: Hasland Cemetery, United Kingdom. 408. (C.).

Private Walter Chambers is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St/ Paul’s Church War Memorial, Hasland, Derbyshire.