James Alexander Chambers

Rank:

Lieutenant

Regimental number:

129123

Unit at enlistment:

72nd Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

September 2nd, 1918

Cemetery:

Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension - Pas de Calais, France - IV.E.20.

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Huron

Birth city:

Seaforth, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

1835 Nelson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia

Next of kin address:

1835 Nelson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia

Trade or calling:

Insurance Agent

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Died of Wounds. While acting as a guide to his Company on the night of August 31st in 1918, in the village of Cherisy, he was wounded in the lower jaw, left leg and abdomen by a shell. After being attended to, he was evacuated to a Field Ambulance and later to No. 42 Casualty Clearing Station where he succumbed to his wounds two days later.