BORN HULL 1892. E SON OF WALTER CHAPMAN & MARY ANN WHITEHEAD AT 2 YARRATT PLACE, RAYWELL STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS ADDRESS). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. WORKED AS A CLERK FOR A TRAWLER OWNER, LIVING AT 35, MALM STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE MARRIED DORIS PRIESTLEY, AT HULL IN 1915.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 11TH EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS REPORTED MISSING AND KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 1/07/1918. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL MEMORIAL.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS AND WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS WIDOW, DORIS (BORN 2811/1894), AT 1 TEMPERENCE AVENUE, WHEELER STREET, HULL. SHE RE-MARRIED AND BECAME DORIS HANAWAY.
HIS BROTHER, ARTHUR MEIGHAN CHAPMAN SERVED WITH THE RAF AND DIED ON THE 28/11/1918, BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL.
