Private Frederick Charles Chamberlain

Army Number : 266962

Battalion : 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Bulwell, Nottingham. Son of Frederick James Chamberlain and Ann Wilcox (formerly Chamberlain) of 95, Henrietta Street, Bulwell. He was a hosiery worker prior to enlisting in February 1916 at Nottingham. He served in Dublin during the Irish Rebellion of 1916 and lost his left arm in action whilst serving in France. He died 10th January 1919, aged 24, at the Military Hospital Charterhouse Square London, following an accident.

Basford Soldier’s Fatal Fall.
“Death in the well of a lift. At Clerkenwell, yesterday, Mr Walter Schroder opened an inquiry into the death of Frederick Charles Chamberlain, 24, a private in the Notts. and Derbyshire Regiment, whose family reside at 135, Vernon-road, Old Basford, Nottingham, and who died in the Military Hospital, Charterhouse-square, EC. Deceased, who was formerly a hosiery trimmer, joined the army in February 1916. He served in Ireland and France and had lost his left arm in action. He was home on Christmas leave and left on the 1st inst. for London to have an artificial limb fitted on. Deceased with four others entered the lift, Chamberlain starting it. Staff-Sergeant Davy, RAMC, subsequently found the deceased lying in the well of the lift, in an unconscious state. He never recovered sensibility and expired in about ten minutes. The engineer to the hospital stated that he examined the lift after the occurrence, and found no defects in it. Probably the deceased overbalanced and fell when he was sending the left away from him. The height from the third floor was 40 feet. The inquiry was adjourned to enable the authorities to trace two men who were in the lift which deceased, and who so far had not been found”.
Nottingham Evening Post, 16 January 1919

Buried : Bulwell (St. Mary) Churchyard, United Kingdom. Old Ground.