Bertram Mordaunt Chambers

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Admiral Bertram Mordaunt Chambers, C.B., Royal Navy, Retired (3 October, 1866 – 27 April, 1945) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Early Life & Career

At the examination for naval cadetships Chambers placed twenty-seventh out of thirty-seven successful candidates.[1]

Chambers was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 April, 1889.[2]

Chambers was promoted to the rank of Commander on 31 December, 1900.[3]

Chambers was promoted to the rank of Captain on 31 December, 1905.[4]

After just a few days in command of the Resolution at the start of 1907,[5] he was appointed Captain of battleship Bulwark on 12 February.[6]

He was captain of battleship Majestic from August 1910 to February of the following year.[7]

Great War

Chambers served as captain of Illustrious from August through October of 1914.[8]

Chambers was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 27 April, 1917. He was placed on the Retired List at his own request on 28 April.[9] On 19 July he was appointed to President as P.C.O. & S.N.O. Escorts Halifax (Principal Convoy Officer and Senior Naval Officer, Escorts, Halifax) based at Sydney, Nova Scotia.[10] He arrived at Sydney on 3 August, 1917.[11]

In September, 1918, he and his staff were transferred to Quebec.[12]

Writing in The Naval Review in 1920, Chambers wrote:

The writer, now retired, considers that he received, very fully, the reward of his deserts, but he thinks that he could have done better and more valuable work for his country had his energies been directed into channels more in co~nformity with his talents.[13]

Retirement

Chambers was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral on the Retired List on 1 May, 1922,[14] and to the rank of Admiral on the Retired List on 8 November, 1926.[15]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 25 June, 1879. Issue 29603, col E, p. 7.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25917. p. 1865. 2 April, 1889.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27263. p. 82. 4 January, 1901.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27870. p. 25. 2 January, 1906.
  5. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  6. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 11 February, 1907. Issue 38253, col E, p. 6.
  7. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  8. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  9. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 30042. p. 4095. 1 May, 1917.
  10. ↑ ADM 196/42. f. 201.
  11. ↑ The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 408.
  12. ↑ The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 201.
  13. ↑ "Advocating a Better Classification of Abilities". p. 55.
  14. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 32695. p. 3625. 9 May, 1922.
  15. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 33222. p. 7477. 19 November, 1926.

Bibliography

  • "Admiral Bertram Chambers" (Obituaries). The Times. Saturday, 28 April, 1945. Issue 50129, col E, p. 6.
  • [Chambers] (February 1920). "Advocating a Better Classification of Abilities". The Naval Review VIII (No. 1): pp. 53-56.
  • Chambers, Admiral B. M. (1927). Salt Junk: Naval Reminiscences, 1881-1906. London: Constable & Co Ltd.

Service Records

Naval Appointments
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