CHAMBERLAYNE Athelstan

  • First Name(s):
    Athelstan 
  • Surname:
    CHAMBERLAYNE
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Lieutenant Colonel

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Cavalry
  • Corps:
    British Indian Army
  • Regiment:
    1st Duke of York's Own Lancers (Skinner's Horse)
  • Unit:
    Commanding 2nd Battalion 76th Punjabis
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    14th January 1920
  • Age At Death:
    41
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Delhi Memorial (India Gate), India, Face 23. Buried in Jandola Cemetery, Grave 23.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of the late William Hart Chamberlayne and Maria Elizabeth Chamberlayne

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

CHAMBERLAYNE Athelstan Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial

Further Information About CHAMBERLAYNE Athelstan

King George’s Durbar Medal (1911). Served in the South African Campaign and France (1915-1917). Mentioned in Despatches.

Athelstan Chamberlayne was killed in action at Ahnai Tangi, Waziristan on 14th January 1920 leading the 2/76th Punjabis of which Regiment he was Acting Lieutenant Colonel in command.  In the war diary of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons a Major A. Chamberlayne is recorded as Second in Command 11th Battalion Border Regiment on 13th July 1916. They had left England in October 1915 on board ‘The City of Chester’ from Southampton. There is a memorial to him at St Denys, Stanford-in-the-Vale, Oxfordshire.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen.

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