Background
Chambers was born in the Adelaide suburb of Thebarton and educated at Street John the Baptist"s School, Thebarton, and Hayward"s Academy, Adelaide.
Chambers was born in the Adelaide suburb of Thebarton and educated at Street John the Baptist"s School, Thebarton, and Hayward"s Academy, Adelaide.
In 1919 he became a dentist. He was mayor of Henley and Grange from 1932 to 1934. During World World War II, he served in the 3rd Field Ambulance in New Guinea, but was soon invalided back to Adelaide.
In July 1949 he ordered troops to mine coal in the New South Wales to break a strike by the then communist-influenced Australasian Coal and Shale Employees" Federation.
The Labor government lost power at the 1949 election. In August 1957, he attacked Evatt"s leadership and was expelled from the party.
lieutenant was too late for Chambers to nominate for another seat, and he was forced to retire. Chambers worked as an immigration selection officer in Belfast, Rome and Scotland from 1959 to 1962 and then worked in Adelaide as a welfare consultant.
In 1968, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).
In 1951, he refused to take part in Labor"s campaign against the 1951 anti-communist referendum and would have been expelled from the party except for the intervention of party leader H.V. Evatt.
Chambers was elected as the Labor member of the House of Representatives seat of Adelaide at the 1943 election and was appointed Minister for the Army in 1946 in the second Chifley ministry.
