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Military service
Service number:
R/78950
Age:
26
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
408 Sqdn.
Birth:
April 22, 1916
St. Thomas, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 9, 1941
London, Ontario
Death:
August 29, 1942
Liesse-Notre-Dame, Aisne, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Mil. Plot. Row B. Grave 14.
Additional information
Son of Christopher Chalken and Jean Morgan, of St. Thomas, Ontario.
He served in Canada and Great Britain. He had 597 days of service, including 234 overseas.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, Defense Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar, operational wings.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
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Letter of Condolences
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of CHRISTOPHER NORMAN CHALKEN
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Letter of recommendation
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From the Toronto Star December 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
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Commemorated on:
Page 63 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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LIESSE COMMUNAL CEMETERY Aisne, France
Liesse is a large village 15 kilometres north-east of Laon, on the Laon-Montcornet road. The LIESSE COMMUNAL CEMETERY is on the sourthern side of Liesse on the road to Marchais and St.Erme.
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