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