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Edward Chambers

iafc55 — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:03:46 +0000

This is my Gt. Uncle Edward, (Granddad Chambers brother), in uniform at the time of the Great War, I believe while in the Norfolk Regiment.

I have not been able to find any records relating to his war service, and therefore, he may have been in the forces before war broke out. I know that he was in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment when he was KIA on 27 August 1917, during the battle of Passchendaele, (3rd Ypres). He has no none grave and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing.

Grandad & Grandma Chambers

iafc55 — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:13:41 +0000

The two seated are my paternal grandparents, Ernest Charles & Elizabeth Chambers. The man standing is my paternal gt.gt. grandfather, Joseph Chambers. The girl is my aunt Peggy, (whom I never met), and the boy is my father, Ernest Frederick Chambers. My father was born in April 1916, so I would put the photo at circa 1926.

Granddad & Grandma Castle

iafc55 — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:51:48 +0000

These are my maternal grandparents, William Arthur Castle & Florence Jane Sims, this photo would be circa 1919, you can see that William is still in his uniform, having fought in the Great War. I have a suspicion that he was in the Royal Engineers, but haven’t been able, as yet to find any proof. The young boy with them is their first born, also William, who was born in the summer of 1914.