Chalk, Jeffrey Thomas Ernest (Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1944-July-13

Sergeant Jeffrey Thomas Ernest Chalk RCAF

Birth Date: 1921-December-31

Born:

Parents: Thomas & Hilda M. Chalk, of Woodstock, Ontario

Spouse:

Home: Salford, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

166 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Tenacity

Base

RAF Kirmington

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/209550

Home
Google MapSalford, Ontario
Final Burial
Google MapCommunal Cemetery
Collective grave 249

Took off from Kirmington at 21:20 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code AS-A2 Bomber Command) to bomb rail facilities in support of the Normandy Landings

Killed: Sergeant Jeffrey Thomas Ernest Chalk RCAF R/209550 KIA Chevillon Communal Cemetery France Coll. grave 249. Sergeant Frederick James Collins RAF KIA Chevillon Communal Cemetery Coll. grave 249. Flying Officer Lancelot Herbert Ellerker RAF KIA Chevillon Communal Cemetery Coll. grave 249. Pilot Officer John McLaren RAF pilot KIA Chevillon Communal Cemetery Coll. grave 249. Sergeant David Ferguson Paton RAF KIA Chevillon Communal Cemetery Coll. grave 249.

Evaders: Flying Officer Stephen Peter Broad RAF Evader. Sergeant E Summers RAF Evader.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Unit Desciption

166 (B) Sqn Tenacity (Huddersfield's Own)

No 166 Squadron RAF was originally formed at Bircham Newton, Norfolk on June 13, 1918, designed as a heavy bomber unit, to fly the Handley Page V/1500 aircraft. The squadron was never fully mobilized because the Armistice intervened. The squadron was re-formed in November 1936 as a heavy bomber unit, flying Handley Page Heyfords, later equipping with Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys. It was based at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire from November 1936 to January 1937, when it moved to Leconfield, Yorkshire. The squadron became part of an air observer's school on June 7, 1938, and then became a 1 Group pool squadron in May 1939. From September 1939 it was based at Abingdon, Berkshire until April 1940. In that month the squadron merged with no. 97 Squadron to form No. 10 OTU.

In January 1943 the squadron was re-formed at Kirmington, Yorkshire (53.578,-0.344, now Humberside Airport), from flights of Nos. 150 and 170 squadrons, when parts of these squadrons were posted to the Middle East. It was again bomber squadron, flying Vickers Wellingtons in No. 1 Group of Bomber Command. It remained at Kirmington until the end of WWII, later re-equipping with Avro Lancasters. In the period 27/28 January 1943 and 25 April 1945, it dropped 27,287 tons of bombs and laid 333 tons of mines. The squadron won "at least" 2 DSOs, 2 CGMs, 117 DFCs and 108 DFMs in the course of WWII. The squadron was disbanded on November 18, 1945.