Alan Bernard Chalice (17 August 1914 – 29 January 1975) was an Australian accountant and stock broker who flew with the RAF and RAAF during World War II.
His parents were members of the Baptist Church and his father and paternal grandfather were employed in the building and carpentry trades.
His Valete in The Newingtonian, the school journal, records him as being a member of Manton House and sitting the Leaving Certificate in 1932.
He rowed for the first time in the Senior VIII at the GPS Head of the River for Newington in his final year at school.
In 1945 through his connections with Nestlés he went to Melbourne to become a member of the Australian Government's Tin Plate Board which allocated that resource.
From 1946 to 1947 he was chief accountant for South East Asia with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and was stationed in Shanghai for six months.
[9] In 1951 the Red Cross bought the historic Sydney building Petty's Hotel and they turned it into the Blood Bank under Challice's direction.
[11] In 1953 the Australian Government sent him to Vietnam to provide assistance to Northern Vietnamese refugees who were fleeing south to escape communism.
From the date of his election he was a partner in the firm of Ernest L. Davis & Co. As a broker Challice specialised in semi-government underwriting.
[15] He was an ardent fisherman, a passion which he shared with his Ernest L. Davis & Co, partner and war time service friend R.A.