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Flight Lieutenant FREDERICK GERALD HUDSON CHALK

Service Number: 81389
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

124 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 17 February 1943

Buried or commemorated at

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE

Plot 14. Row F. Grave 12.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur and Edith Blanche Clarissa Chalk, of Cooden Beach, Sussex; Husband of Rosemary Chalk. B. A. Oxon. Chalk joined the Honourable Artillery Company as a Gunner when war broke out. He later transferred to the R.A.F. as a Rear Gunner and won the DFC in June of 1941. On completion of a pilot's course in 1942 he was promoted to Flight Lieutenant and became a Spitfire Flight Commander. He was widely known in pre-war Cricketing circles having captained the Oxford University team and later went on to captain Kent. Chalk was originally commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, but in 1989 a positive identification was made and he was buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery.
  • Personal Inscription LAID TO REST 30TH JUNE 1989 I HAVE SLIPPED THE BONDS OF EARTH AND TOUCHED THE FACE OF GOD
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