Cyril Chambers
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The Honourable Cyril Chambers CBE |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Adelaide |
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In office 21 August 1943 – 14 October 1958 |
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| Preceded by | Fred Stacey |
| Succeeded by | Joe Sexton |
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| Born |
28 February 1897 Thebarton, South Australia |
| Died | 3 October 1975 (aged 78) Hawthorn, South Australia |
| Nationality |
 Australian
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| 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.
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 following the 1946 election 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.
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 from the party. He was readmitted in June 1958, but by that time Joe Sexton had already won preselection for Adelaide. It was too late for Chambers to nominate for another seat, and he was forced to retire.
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