BORN HULL 1882. SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM THOMAS & BETSEY LUCINDA CHAPMAN, HULL. MARRIED CATHERINE ELIZABETH MASON, ON 09/10/1915, AND LIVED AT 32 HEYWWOD STREET, MOSS SIDE. OCCUPATION GIVEN WAS ‘TRAVLLER’. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 10 INCHES TALL, 155 LBS WEIGHT, 38 INCH CHEST, HAZEL EYES AND BLACK HAIR,A SCAR ON HIS RIGHT JAW. HE ENLISTED IN MANCHESTER, ON 03/12/1915, AGED 33 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS. MOBILISED ON 31/07/1916. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 30/04/1917. REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/05/1918, AGED 36. HE HAD SERVED FOR 2 YEARS AND 176 DAYS. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW. HE HAD NO CHILDREN. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE POZIERES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HIS BROTHER, PTE, FREDERICK JOHN CHAPMAN, 4TH EYR, WAS KILLED ON 06/08/1916, AGED 26.
BOTH ARE RECORDED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL, AT ST JOHNS, NEWLANDS, HULL.
HIS TWO OTHER BROTHERS WERE SIDNEY AND WILL.
