Cyril Chambers

Cyril Chambers
The Honourable
Cyril Chambers
CBE
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Adelaide
In office
21 August 1943 – 14 October 1958
Preceded by Fred Stacey
Succeeded by Joe Sexton
Personal details
Born 28 February 1897(1897-02-28)
Thebarton, South Australia
Died 3 October 1975(1975-10-03) (aged 78)
Hawthorn, South Australia
Nationality Australian
Political party Australian Labor Party
Spouse(s) 1) Hilda Dorothy Mummery
2) Salamas Rickman, née Koodak
3) Janet Sanderson Pullen
Occupation Dentist

Cyril Chambers CBE (28 February 1898 – 3 October 1975) was an Australian and Minister for the Army.

Chambers was born in the Adelaide suburb of Thebarton and educated at St 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. In 1938, he married Hilda Dorothy Mummery. During World War II, he served in the 3rd Field Ambulance in New Guinea, but was soon invalided back to Adelaide.[1]

Political career

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. 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.[1]

Chambers' first wife had died in 1943 and in December 1949, he married a divorcee, Salamas Rickman, despite his generally strict Catholicism. She died in 1954 and in October 1956 he married Janet Sanderson Pullen. 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. In August 1957, he attacked Evatt's leadership and was expelled, but was readmitted in June 1958 when it was too late to gain preselection for a seat.[1]

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 (CBE). He died in Hawthorn, South Australia, survived by his third wife, but he had no children.[1]

Notes

Political offices
Preceded by
Frank Forde
Minister for the Army
1946 – 1949
Succeeded by
Josiah Francis
Parliament of Australia
Preceded by
Fred Stacey
Member for Adelaide
1943 – 1958
Succeeded by
Joe Sexton



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