Birth GRO 2nd qtr 1906
CHATFIELD, Leonard Desmond Hartley W. 2c 202
Death GRO 2nd qtr 1976
CHATFIELD, Leonard Desmond Truro 21 543
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Find A Grave Memorial# 46164262
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England and Wales Census, 1911
Name Leonard Chatfield
County Hampshire
Parish Fleet
Sub-District Odiham
Registration District Hartley Wintney
Gender Male
Age 4
Birthplace Fleet, Hampshire
Record Type Household
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School at Woking Grammar, Surrey.
Worked as Salesman for coal/oil distributors Wm Cory and Sons, London EC3
Grandmaster of Carbon Lodge Freemasons
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Commissioned in the army in 1941 having been in the Officers Training Corps at school.
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35153/supplements/2580/page.pdf
29th Mar. 1941:- 2nd Lt. Leonard Desmond Chatfield (178869).
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L D Chatfield Lieutenant 29.03.1941 War Office
L D Chatfield 2nd Lieutenant 1941 General List
L D Chatfield 2nd Lieutenant 1941 Royal Engineers
Page 5552. SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 22 DECEMBER, 1942
REGULAR ARMY.
EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS, ETC.
Movement Control Section.
The undermentioned in the rank as stated, 1st Nov. 1942, retaining their present seniority: -
L. D. Chatfield (178869)
L D Chatfield War Substantive /Lt. 29.09.1942
L D Chatfield Temporary /Capt. 15.11.1942-23.12.1944
L D Chatfield War Substantive /Capt. 24.12.1944 (retd > 12.1946, < 04.1947)
L D Chatfield Temporary /Maj. 24.12.1944-(04.1946)
Must have been made a Lt.Col. April 1946.
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From son Martin Chatfield.
I understand Dad enlisted in 1940 but I don’t know which month. I only remember during the blitz around December 1940, he wasn’t there. I do remember him being at home sometimes, particularly when The Bird’s were bombed out from Harrow as uncle Roland was with him. Roland was a sergeant and Dad was in uniform as well. We were sleeping in the Morrison shelter.
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MOVEMENT CONTROL OFFICERS' CLUB - NEWS BULLETIN - Number 76 May 1958
NEWS OF PEOPLE - LD Chatfield notifies a change of address from SW16 to deep in the heart of Kent. He's now living in a cottage built in 1711 and there are 11 pubs in the village. If any of you look in on him he suggests that they can provide beer to suit all tastes. But look out. He's wanting mugs to help him with gardening, painting, bricklaying and other jolly games.
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Injured in rail accident at Lewisham on 4 Dec 1957 whilst travelling from Cannon Street to Tonbridge in which three trains collided killing 90 people and injuring 167.
"In the prevailing dense fog, in which the trains were running very late, the 4.56 p.m. express passenger train from Cannon Street to Ramsgate, via Folkestone, formed of 11 bogie coaches hauled by a "Pacific" type engine, passed the Red aspect of the Down Through colour light inner home signal of St. Johns signal box, and then after travelling 138 yards it collided at about 30 m.p.h. with the rear of the 5.18 p.m. 10-coach electric passenger train from Charing Cross to Hayes (Mid Kent line) which was standing at the Parks Bridge Junction colour light home signal.
The air brakes of the electric train had been applied to hold it stationary on the rising gradient. As a consequence, the shock of the collision was more severe than it otherwise would have been, and the whole of the body of the eighth coach was destroyed when the underframe and body of the ninth coach were forced over and through it. In the Ramsgate train the rear of the engine tender and the front of the leading coach were crushed together and thrown to the left by the sudden stoppage, most unfortunately striking and dislodging a steel middle column supporting two of the four heavy girders of a bridge which carried the Nunhead-Lewisham double line over the four main tracks.
The two girders subsided at once on to the train below completing the destruction of the leading coach and crushing the second coach and the leading half of the third. About two minutes later, the 5.22 p.m. 8-coach electric train from Holborn Viaduct to Dartford, which was moving slowly on to the bridge towards a signal at Red, was stopped very promptly by the motorman when he saw the girders at an angle; this train was neither derailed nor damaged, but the leading coach was tilted...
Owing to the disorganisation of the train services by the fog, both the trains were crowded, and it is estimated that there were nearly 1,500 passengers in the electric train and about 700 in the steam train. It was inevitable in these circumstances that the casualty list was very great, and I much regret to state that 90 persons altogether lost their lives; 88 passengers and the guard of the electric train were killed outright, and one passenger died later of his injuries. Of the 89 fatalities to passengers, there is evidence that 37 occurred in the electric train and 49 in the steam train."
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-lewisham-train-crash-on-the-evening-of-4-december-1957-a-dense-blanket-83560043.html
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Landlord of The Halfway House, Brenchley, Kent abt 1964 - 1969. (NB Same one where Sophie, Countess of Wessex worked as a barmaid before marrying Prince Edward.)
Moved to Mylor Bridge, Cornwall 1969 and then Constantine, Cornwall.
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MOVEMENT CONTROL OFFICERS' CLUB - NEWS BULLETIN - Number 224 September 1970
NEWS OF PEOPLE - LD Chatfield in reporting a change of address - from Brenchley, Kent to Falmouth - writes:- "We have recently fully retired and have given up the tenancy of the Halfway House at Brenchley where, I am happy to say, many old Movements friends called to see me and to chat over old times". Others, too, he says, armed with that much-used List of Members, called and introduced themselves.
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