Robert Herbert Borgnis Hammond-Chambers

Commander (retired) Robert Herbert Borgnis Hammond-Chambers, D.S.O. (1 April, 1882 –17 July, 1968) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Hammond-Chambers was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 September, 1903.

Hammond-Chambers was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 30 September, 1911.

Hammond-Chambers retired at his own request on 1 April, 1912.

Hammond-Chambers was appointed in command of the destroyer Myrmidon on 9 October, 1914.

Mentioned in despatches for services in raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend on 22-23 April, 1918. He would receive a D.S.O. for this on 22 February, 1919.

On 28 May, 1918, Hammond-Chambers was appointed in command of the flotilla leader Botha.

Hammond-Chambers was promoted to the rank of Commander on 1 April, 1919, antedated to 11 November, 1918.

World War II

Hammond-Chambers received three weeks of anti-submarine warfare training in mid-1939. On 26 September, he was placed in command of Cayton Wyke and of a group of anti-submarine trawlers. Sometime after February, 1940, he was made Maintenance Commander, Kirkwall Base.

At the end of 1942 he was appointed in command of the land establishment H.M.S. Excalibur in the acting rank of Captain. He was superseded in or around March, 1944 and took up unspecified work on the books of Pembroke.

On 8 December, 1944, he dislocated his right elbow on the Isle of Man.

See Also

• Service Records
• Wikipedia

Naval Appointments
Preceded by Wilfred A. Thompson	Captain of H.M.S. Hasty 19 Apr, 1909 – 4 Jan, 1910	Succeeded by Cecil M. Queripel
Preceded by Godfray Bruce Cargill	Captain of H.M. T.B. 11 Aug, 1910 – 14 Jan, 1911	Succeeded by Christopher J. F. Eddis
Preceded by Maurice B. R. Blackwood	Captain of H.M.S. Cherwell 19 Jan, 1911 – 24 Mar, 1911[Inference]	Succeeded by William B. Mackenzie
Preceded by New Command	Captain of H.M.S. Alarm 24 Mar, 1911 – 1 Apr, 1912	Succeeded by Henry C. Rawlings
Preceded by James V. Creagh	Captain of H.M.S. Myrmidon 9 Oct, 1914 – 20 Apr, 1915	Succeeded by George N. Gilbertson
Preceded by Montague R. Bernard	Captain of H.M.S. Tartar 20 Apr, 1915 – 6 Apr, 1917	Succeeded by William H. Sandford
Preceded by Ernest W. Kirkby	Captain of H.M.S. Manly Apr, 1917 – 26 Dec, 1917	Succeeded by Francis T. Hare
Preceded by Roger L'E. M. Rede	Captain of H.M.S. Trident 26 Dec, 1917 – 28 May, 1918	Succeeded by Arthur J. Landon
Preceded by Roger L'E. M. Rede	Captain of H.M.S. Botha 28 May, 1918 – 20 Mar, 1919	Succeeded by Leveson G. B. A. Campbell