Seventeenth Generation

12896. Edwin Herbert Chatfield was born on 13 February 1910 in Copnor, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. He died on 24 May 1941 at the age of 31 in At sea HMS Hood, Denmark Strait, Atlantic Ocean. Able Seaman, Royal Navy.
Died on sinking of "The Hood" - his mother never got over this, and whenever Ivor James Chatfield called in on her after watching Portsmouth play at football she'd open the door and say "is it you Eddie?"
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Edwin was born on 13 February 1910 in Portsmouth, Hampshire. He was the youngest son of Mr A. Chatfield. Prior to serving in Hood, he served in Palestine (where he was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal), Dunkirk and Narvik. He and his wife had two children and lived at 98 Pretoria Rd, Southsea. He was 31 years old at the time of his loss. We have no additional information.
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Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Memorial Plot: Panel 47, Column 2.
Find A Grave Memorial# 56689525

Edwin Herbert Chatfield and Eileen Winifred Chaldecott were married in 1933 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Marriages GRO 4th qtr 1933
Chatfield, Edwin H Chaldecott Portsmouth 2b 1363
Chaldecott, Eileen W Chatfield Portsmouth 2b 1363
Eileen Winifred Chaldecott, daughter of Rowland O Chaldecott and Elsie Osmond, was born in 1914 in Dorchester, Dorset, England. She lived in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England in 1939. She died in 2004 at the age of 90 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Birth GRO 2nd qtr 1914
CHALDECOTT, Eileen M Osmond Dorchester 5a 68
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England and Wales Death Registration Index
Name: Eileen Winifred Chatfield
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration Year: 2004
Registration District: Portsmouth
County: Hampshire
Event Place: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Birth Date : 31 May 1914
Volume: 497/1
Page: E66A
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WWII registration. Eileen W, Chatfield, 1914, Portsmouth C.B., Hampshire.

Edwin Herbert Chatfield and Eileen Winifred Chaldecott had the following children: