Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19 (Flt. S. Lt. E. N. Chamberlain. R.N.A.S.) nearly extremely fine £60-£80

Ernest Noble Chamberlain was born at Warrington, Cheshire, on 14 January 1899 and joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a Temporary Probationary Flying Officer on 29 July 1917. Posted to Crystal Palace, he transferred to R.N.A.S. Eastbourne and having attended the officers course at Cranwell was confirmed in the rank of Flight Sub Lieutenant on 19 December 1917. He graduated from Cranwell, as a qualified Airplane Pilot, with his record noted that he was ‘a Good Pilot and keen officer, recommended for Seaplanes’. He transferred to the the Royal Air Force as a founder member on 1 April 1918, and was based at R.A.F. Killingholme, being granted the rank of Temporary Lieutenant. He is noted as having flown Maurice Farman, B.E. 3 and Avro aircraft, learned to fly seaplanes, practised Aerial gunnery and bomb dropping and undertaken the roles of 2nd Pilot and Observer.

Chamberlain resigned his commission in order to resume his medical studies on 17 August 1918, and was granted the rank of Lieutenant. He continued in his chosen medical profession and qualified M.B. ChB., Liverpool (1921), M.D. (1924), M.R.C.P. (1925), MSc. (1928), & F.R.C.P. (1937). He qualified as a physician at Liverpool University and later became Medical Registrar at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. By 1925 he held a senior appointment at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, as physician to outpatients and to the cardiology department. In 1933 he returned to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and assisted to develop the Heart Department and later became the first director of the Liverpool Regional Cardiac Centre. He was also a distinguished author of several important Medical texts. He died in Merionethshire on 9 February 1974.

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