CHAMBERS, Thomas Frank

Banneville La Campagne War Cemetery, France

Credit: Gary Newman

Trooper

147th (10th Battalion Hampshire Regiment)

Royal Armoured Corps

Thomas was born 1919 in Newport to Thomas & Amy (nee SALTER) CHAMBERS of Newport. He married Maisie Edith LOOSEMORE in 1943 at St Saviours Church in Shanklin.

Thomas, aged 24, was reported Killed in Action on the 17th of July 1944, & originally buried near Mouen, his body was exhumed & reburied on the 9th of January 1946, in the Banneville La Campagne War Cemetery in France, beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family inscription: “GONE FROM OUR MIDST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. HE WAS LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM”.

For the most part, the men buried in this Cemetery were killed in the fighting from the second week of July 1944, when Caen was captured, to the last week in August, when the Falaise Gap had been closed & the Allied forces were preparing their advance beyond the Seine.

Thomas is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.