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
- 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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