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In memory of:

Pilot Officer Arthur Dickens Chiddenton

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Military service

Service number: J/16337
Age: 20
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 132 Sqdn.
Birth: September 26, 1922 Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment: February 11, 1941 Toronto, Ontario
Death: December 5, 1942 Dunkirk, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 100.
Additional information
Son of Sydney James Chiddenton and Phoebe Barbara Greenwell, from Toronto, Ontario.

Sydney served as a sergeant in the First World War, service No. 2699, then as second lieutenant, first for the 2nd Centralized Ammunition Stock Point of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Canada and France, from January 14, 1915, to January 30, 1918, then under the same rank from January 30, 1918, to June 5, 1919, as a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps, which became the Royal Air Force.

He served in Canada and Great Britain. He had 658 days of service, 364 of which were overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, Defence Medal, General Service Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Bar, Operational Wings.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 64 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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