CHATFIELD, Alfred James
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
47RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Army Medical Corps
Service:
Army
Service Number:
7346931
Born:
Sunday, July 9, 1922
Birthplace:
Norwood
Died :
Tuesday, June 6, 1944
Between:
Tuesday, June 6, 1944 to Wednesday, June 7, 1944
Age:
21
Cemetery/Memorial:
Lance Corporal Arthur Chatfield, R.A.M.C., attached to 47RM Commando, died at Normandy. Educated at Davidson Road School, Croydon. Employed as a Carpenter. Served in 133 Field Ambulance T.A. from March 1939. Called up September 1939. Son of William and Dorothy Janette Chatfield, of West Croydon, Surrey.
47RM Commando Medical Officer John Forfar MC later wrote "First to be hit was an LCA carrying half of Q troop. While still far out from the shore it was suddenly seen to be listing and sinking, hit probably by a shell. Men were jumping into the water: others were not doing so. The Troop Commander Major Feacey and eleven others, including the troop medical orderly L/Cpl Chatfield, had been killed or drowned and fourteen including the adjutant were wounded – 26 out of the LCA’s 36 occupants".
Sources
CWGC.
Forfar MC, 47RM Commando From Omaha to the Scheldt, p.61 (Kindle).
Berwick Sayers, Croydon and the Second World War, 1949, Roll of Honour, p.386..
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