CHAMBERS, Edgar Arthur

Yokohama War Cemetery, JapanCredit: Gary Newman

Gunner
137 Field Regiment
Royal Artillery

Edgar was born 1915 in Newport to William & Frances of 5 Clifford Street, Newport. He married Gladys GREGSON in 1940 in Merioneth, North West Wales, & they lived together on the Island in Newport with their 5-year-old daughter.

Edgar, aged 28, died on the 12th of January 1944 as a Japanese prisoner of war & originally cremated, his ashes being housed in the Yokohama Mausoleum. On the 15th of September 1946 Edgar was laid in his final resting place in the Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan beneath a Pedestal Marker bearing the Family Inscription: "LOVINGLY REMEMBEED ALWAYS BY HIS WIFE, LITTLE GIRL AND MOTHER. ""MIZPAH""" He rests with 1,506 of his comrades also buried in the cemetery.

Edgar 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.