
Brief History of James Chambers
Name: James Chambers
DOB: 1881
Regiment: Loyal North Lancs Regt
Battalion: 4th Battalion
Service Number: 200810
Enlisted: Preston 16th October 1914.
Fate: Prisoner of War
Date: 22
nd
October 1918
Further Information: Repatriated: 08/12/1918
Discharged: Kings Regs 392 (XIX) for the benefit of the public service, for the purpose of being appointed
to a temporary commission in the Loyal North Lancs Regiment
Date of Discharge: 29
th
January 1918
Awards: Assistant Instructor of Signalling 31st Aug 1908
Ramsgate Technical Institute of Field Telephony. 3
rd
July 1915
2
nd
Class Instructor, School of Musketry (Bisley Camp) July 1916
Bombing Instructor ’s Certificate, Aldershot 17
th
April 1919
British War Medal
Victory Medal
Temporary Rank: Second Lieutenant Feb 1918.
Transferred: Royal Fusiliers 46th Btn (Archangel /North Russia Relief Force) Aug 4
th
1919
Transferred: Royal Irish Constabulary, No 891, dated 26
th
Oct 1920.