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Arnold Jacques Chadwick

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were cited for: "...exceptional gallantry and remarkable skill and courage whilst serving with the R.N.A.S. at Dunkirk during May and June, 1917, in repeatedly attacking and destroying hostile aircraft."
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Arnold Jacques Chadwick was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 23 August 1895. He was the only son of C. W. Chadwick; the elder Chadwick was the manager of Colonial Realty Corporation.
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On 11 August 1917, Chadwick was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in an unusual joint citation. He, Albert Enstone, Langley Frank Willard Smith, and
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on 30 December 1915. He originally served in 5 Naval Wing after being trained. On 2 October 1916, while on a bombing raid aimed at
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Above the Trenches : A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces, 1915-1920
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On 25 July 1917, Chadwick, Enstone, and Keirstead joined to destroy a German seaplane northward of
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hangars, he was shot down. He managed to evade capture and escape to the neutral country of the
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On 25 May 1917, Chadwick destroyed an Albatros reconnaissance two-seater in the vicinity of
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dubbed DO-DO, he scored his first aerial victory on 26 April 1917, driving down a German
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credited with 11 aerial victories. He became an ace twice over; once while flying
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Chadwick joined the Royal Naval Air Service and was commissioned as a temporary
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Canadian recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
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157:(August 23, 1893 – July 28, 1917) was a Canadian-born World War I 197:. Once repatriated, Chadwick was assigned to 4 Naval Squadron in 236:
destroyed a German recon machine. On 3 June 1917, he crashed an
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Shores, Christopher; Franks, Norman; Guest, Russell (1990).
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and two other British pilots to attack and destroy a German
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to drive down a second one. Chadwick was now a Camel ace.
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in the early morning. That same evening, he teamed with
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Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops
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Index

Toronto
English Channel
De Panne
Adinkerke Military Cemetery
De Panne
King George V
British Empire
Royal Naval Air Service
Flight Commander
No. 5 Wing RNAS
No. 4 Squadron RNAS
Distinguished Service Cross
DSC
flying ace
Sopwith Pups
Sopwith Camels
Flight Sub-Lieutenant
Zeppelin
Netherlands
Bloody April
Sopwith Pup
Albatros D.II
Bray Dunes
Langley Frank Willard Smith
Gotha G
Westende
Furnes
Albert Enstone
Albatros D.V
Sopwith Camels

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