Chadwick joined the Royal Naval Air Service and was commissioned as a temporary
Flight Sub-Lieutenant 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
Zeppelin hangars, he was shot down. He managed to evade capture and escape to the neutral country of the
Netherlands. Once repatriated, Chadwick was assigned to 4 Naval Squadron in
Bloody April 1917. Using a
Sopwith Pup dubbed DO-DO, he scored his first aerial victory on 26 April 1917, driving down a German
Albatros D.II fighter plane out of control. On 25 May 1917, Chadwick destroyed an Albatros reconnaissance two-seater in the vicinity of
Bray Dunes in the early morning. That same evening, he teamed with
Langley Frank Willard Smith and two other British pilots to attack and destroy a German
Gotha G multi-engine bomber north of
Westende. The following day, he shared in a victory southwest of
Furnes, when he and
Albert Enstone destroyed a German recon machine. On 3 June 1917, he crashed an
Albatros D.V to become an ace on Sopwith Pups. Arnold Jacques Chadwick is buried in Plot G.1 at
Adinkerke Military Cemetery, Adinkerke, Arrondissement Veurne, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium. ==Notes==