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{{Infobox military person
|name = Henry Chambers
|image = The British Army in Burma 1945 SE4046.jpg
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|caption = Lieutenant General [[William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim|Sir William Slim]] (GOC-in-Chief 14th Army, left), Air Vice Marshal [[Stanley Vincent]] (AOC 221 Group South East Asia Air Forces, centre) and Major General Henry Chambers (GOC 26th Indian Division, right) at [[Government House, Rangoon]], 8 May 1945.
|nickname =
|birth_date = {{birth date|1897|07|15|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Belfast]], Ireland
|death_date = 1967 (aged 68–69)
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|placeofburial =
|allegiance = United Kingdom
|branch = [[British Army]] [[British Indian Army]]
|serviceyears = 1914–1948
|servicenumber = 9351
|rank = [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]]
|unit = [[Royal Munster Fusiliers]] [[117th Mahrattas]] [[5th Mahratta Light Infantry]]
|commands = [[26th Indian Infantry Division]] [[71st Indian Infantry Brigade]] [[64th Indian Infantry Brigade]]
|battles = [[First World War]] [[Second World War]]
|awards = [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] [[Mentioned in Despatches]] (2)
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[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]] '''Henry Maurice Chambers''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|CBE}} (15 July 1897 – 1967) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer of the [[Second World War]].

==Military career==
Chambers received a temporary commission in the [[British Army]] as a second lieutenant on 26 September 1914 to the [[Royal Munster Fusiliers]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28918|date=29 September 1914|page=7690}}</ref> He served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in the [[First World War]], and on 3 December 1917 he was commissioned a lieutenant into the [[117th Mahrattas]] of the [[British Indian Army]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30759|date=21 June 1918|page=7333}}</ref><ref>Jan 1941 Indian Army List war services supplement</ref> Chambers was promoted to the rank of captain in June 1919. From 1924 to 1925 he attended the [[Staff College, Camberley]], and between the wars he served in India as a [[staff officer]] and became a lieutenant colonel in September 1939.<ref>'Chambers, Henry Maurice' in ''[http://www.unithistories.com/units_index/default.asp?file=../officers/personsx.html Indian Army Officers 1939–1945] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408060638/http://www.unithistories.com/units_index/default.asp?file=..%2Fofficers%2Fpersonsx.html |date=8 April 2018 }}'' at unithistories.com, accessed 18 August 2015</ref>

[[File:The War in the Far East- the Burma Campaign 1941-1945 SE4114.jpg|thumb|left|Major General Chambers, GOC 26th Indian Division, takes the salute at the victory parade in Rangoon.]]

In 1942 Chambers became acting commander of the [[64th Indian Infantry Brigade]], before serving as a brigadier on the General Staff until 1944. He then became commander of the [[71st Indian Infantry Brigade]], serving with the brigade during the [[Burma Campaign]].<ref>'Chambers, Henry Maurice' in ''[http://www.unithistories.com/units_index/default.asp?file=../officers/personsx.html Indian Army Officers 1939–1945] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408060638/http://www.unithistories.com/units_index/default.asp?file=..%2Fofficers%2Fpersonsx.html |date=8 April 2018 }}'' at unithistories.com, accessed 18 August 2015</ref> In early 1945 he was made Acting General Officer Commanding of the [[26th Indian Infantry Division]], before taking permanent command of the division later in the year, serving in Burma and Sumatra. Chambers was twice [[mentioned in despatches]] for his actions during the war in the Far East, and in January 1946 he was invested as a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37433|date=15 January 1946|page=493|supp=y }}</ref> He retired from the army as a major-general in 1948.

==Family==
In 1920 Chambers married Aileen Geraldine Olga Allison, with whom he had two sons. They divorced in 1947.<ref>'Chambers, Henry Maurice' in ''[http://www.unithistories.com/units_index/default.asp?file=../officers/personsx.html Indian Army Officers 1939–1945] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408060638/http://www.unithistories.com/units_index/default.asp?file=..%2Fofficers%2Fpersonsx.html |date=8 April 2018 }}'' at unithistories.com, accessed 18 August 2015</ref> He married again in 1954 to Sybil Ismay Siddons. He retired to South Africa.<ref>Kelly's Handbook 1967</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://generals.dk/general/Chambers/Henry_Maurice/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]
*[https://www.unithistories.com/officers/IndianArmy_officers_C01.html#Chambers_HM Indian Army Officers 1939–1945]

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