Herbert Davis Chalke (15 June 1897 – 8 October 1979) was a British physician known for his work in the fields of social medicine and medical history.
He later served in the Royal Air Force during the latter part of World War I and in the Royal Army Medical Corps throughout World War II, retiring as a colonel.
In the 1930s, the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association appointed him to study tuberculosis mortality in Wales.
[3] He played a major role in a campaign to control a typhus epidemic in Naples, Italy during the 1940s, for which he received the Typhus Commission Medal from the United States government.
[4] He is survived by his son David John Chalke, a social analyst in Australia.