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Flight Sergeant Walter Owen Earl Chambers

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Military service

Service number: R/9845
Age: 31
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 156 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: June 16, 1912 Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario
Enlistment: January 17, 1938 Ontario
Death: September 7, 1943 Gissinger Waldershaus, Germany

Burial/memorial information

DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: Joint grave 7. E. 19-20.
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Son of Frederick W. Chambers and Mildred Jane Nelson, of Ottawa, Ontario. Brother of Leading Aircraftman Frederick A. Chambers, Service number R-217149, and Leading Aircraftwoman T. Chambers, Service number 437352, of the Royal Air Force. They survived the war.

He served as a Sergeant with the Lanark Renfrew Scottish Regiment, Company A – NPAM – in Pembroke, Ontario, from 1929 to 1932, then as a Corporal in No. 3 Canadian Clearing Station CAMC – NPAM – in Ottawa, Ontario, from 1934 to 1936.

He had service in Canada and Great Britain. He had 1,455 days of service, including 316 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 145 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Germany

Durnbach is a village 16 kilometres east of Bad Tolz, a town 48 kilometres south of Munich. Durnbach War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village Gmund am Tegernsee. Using the A8 from Munich, turn off at the junction Holzkirchen, taking the 318 road in the direction of Gmund am Tegernsee. At the crossroads with the 472, turn left in the direction of Miesbach. The cemetery is situated approximately 500 metres on the left from the 318/472 crossroads.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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