CHAMBERS, Gordon Enoch John

Gordon Chambers was the son of Ernest Enoch Chambers and his wife Alice Maud, nee Carter. He was 23 years old at the tmie he enlisted on 15 January, 1918, and working as a Commercial Traveller. He had married in 1916, when he was 21, to Elsie Kent Wade, but they did not appear to be living together: he was at 151 Grey St., East Melbourne, while she was living in Whitehorse Rd., Blackburn. 

He was attached to the Australian Flying Corps, November 1917 Reinforcements, leaving Melbourne on HMAT 'Nestor' A71 on 28 February and disembarking at Liverpool, England, on 20 April, 1918. From here, he was sent ot the Australian Flying Corps Depot at Wendover on 25 June, 1918, before being transferred in July to the No. 2-To Squadron AFC. This was located at Leighton. He remained at Leighton until 6 May, 1919, when he was returned to Australia on board the 'Kaiser-i-hind', which must have been handed over as part of war reparations from the German fleet. Gordon Chambers disembarked at Melbourne on 16 June, 1919. At this stage, Elsie Kent Chambers was living in Toorak.

In 1924, Gordon Chambers was working as a mechanic and living with Alice Ann at 11 Byron St., St Kilda. The marriage does not come up on the Marriage Index site on Ancestry.com.au. By 1916, they had moved to 228 Dawson St., Ballarat, where he worked as a salesman, They were still there when Gordon Chambers died in 1962, aged 69. Alice Ann was still living in their family home in 1963.