Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Thomas Chambers a general labourer, born 1858 in Caldecott, Rutland and his wife Emily, born 1860 in Rockingham, Northants. George Robert was born in 1888 in Caldecott, Rutland, his siblings were, Ernest C., born 1880, Herbert William, born 1884 and Edith E., born 1887, all his siblings were born in Caldecott, Rutland, in April 1891 the family home was at Caldecott, Rutland. In March 1901 George was employed as a carpenter’s labourer and was residing in the family home at The Yews, Caldecott, Rutland, together with his father now a farm labourer, his mother and siblings, Ernest, Catherine, born 1893 and Thomas W., born 1895, the latter two siblings were both born in Caldecott, Rutland. In April 1911 George was employed as a furnace labourer and was residing in the family home at Caldecott, Rutland, together with his wife of two years, Emily, born 1889 in Market Overton, Rutland, and their son George William, born 1910 in Caldecott, Rutland. He embarked for France with the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment in September 1915, where on Sunday the 26th he was wounded at the Battle of Loos. The 73rd Brigade were thrust into one of the hottest corners of a desperate fight, and were constantly attacked, but were suffering more from cold and hunger than from the Germans, but held the trenches against the enemy. Upon recovery from his wounds he was transferred to the 8th Battalion Northamptonshire Regt. at Colchester, Essex, and went out to France in February 1916, where he served until August 1917, when he was sent to England and transferred to the Labour Corps in which he remained until his death from pneumonia at the War Hospital, Duston, Northampton. He left four fatherless children.