- Contributed byÌý
- actiondesksheffield
- People in story:Ìý
- Leonard Chambers
- Location of story:Ìý
- Sheffield and North Africa.
- Background to story:Ìý
- Army
- Article ID:Ìý
- A5544849
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 06 September 2005
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This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Bill Ross of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Rosalind Hallam and has been added to the site with the her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
The presentation is in several parts, which will show the sequence of the communication that informed of her father’s eventual death in service.
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HILLSBOROUGH
DIED OF WOUNDS .- Mrs. Chambers of Home lane, Hillsboro’, has been notified that her son, Pte Leonard Chambers, died of wounds on the April 9th while serving with the First Army in North Africa. He was 30, and leaves a widow and child. Pte Chambers joined the York and Lancaster Regiment in July, 1940, and went to Africa in December, 1942. His mother, with whom he lived, has been heavily bereaved, for her husband died in November, 1942.
Other Parts to this story are at:
Pt 1: A5544128
Pt 2: A5544191
Pt 3: A5544272
Pt 4: A5544425
Pt 5: A5544623
Pt 7:
A5545334
Pt 8: A5545569
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