CHAMBERLAIN, CHARLES ERNEST
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4748983
04/10/1944
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Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders 5th Bn.
I. D. 19.
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Initially buried at the Sint Oedenrodeseweg 11, Best.
I can only provide a little information as most of the family who would have known him are no longer with us.
Born September 1917 to Ernest and Elizabeth Ann Chamberlain in Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, England.
He was the 2nd of 7 children only one of whom is still alive.
Before joining the Army in 1940 (we think) he worked at Grimethorpe Colliery. He was married briefly to Edith but there were no children.
On joining he was assigned to the 5th Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. After training he would have joined his Regiment in action in the Western Desert against Rommel and the Afrika Korps, then participated in the invasion of Sicily. After that the regiment
was recalled to England in preparation for D-Day.
After D-Day they fought through France and Belgium and on into Holland where he sadly lost his life.
Cudworth War Memorial
