BORN HULL 1892. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF WALTER CHAPMAN & MARY ANN WHITEHEAD ABOVE 1901 CENSUS ADDRESS. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. WORKED AS A CLERK FOR A TRAWLER OWNER. ENLISTED HULL. 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 BROTHER ARTHUR 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.
First name:
WILLIAM EDWARD
Military Number:
27255
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
01/07/1916
Place died:
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE
Age:
24
2 YARRATT PLACE, RAYWELL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
