Name
Ernest Alfred Chalk
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Ernest Chalk was born in Abbots Langley in the winter of 1872, the son of George and Mary Chalk. The Chalks lived in the centre of Abbots Langley, close to the Abbots House. George and Mary had three children, two sons and a daughter, and George worked as a Carman/Labourer.
On 24th October 1901 Ernest married Ellen Lovell at Kingsbury, in north London, and the couple had a daughter in 1902. Having started his working life as a Butcher’s Errand Boy, Ernest gave his occupation as Journeyman Butcher in the 1911 Census, when the family lived at 33 Essex Road, Willesden.
Ernest was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in August 1918. His name was listed, but not his unit. In the final Roll of Honour in December 1918 Ernest was listed with the Norfolk Yeomanry, and it was likely that he joined this unit at some point in 1918.
Ernest Chalk survived the War.
Additional Information
Rank unknown
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
