Chalk, Frederick Gerald Hudson

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Cemetery: Terlincthun British Cemetery Wimille

Country: France

Area: Pas De Calais

Rank: Flight Lieutenant

Force: Royal Air Force

Official Number: 81389

Unit: 124 Sqn.

Country of Service: British

Details: D F C 17th February 1943. 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. Plot 14. Row F. Grave 12.

Photograph by TWGPP 2009 / David Milborrow

Terlincthun British Cemetery Wimille - Chalk, Frederick Gerald Hudson

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