Peter Lewis Chapman
Service number
1376923
Military unit
101 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address
Spring Gardens, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Date of birth
17 Jul 1922
Date of death
20 Jan 1942 (19 years old)
Place of birth
Spring Gardens, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Employment, education or hobbies
Sorting Clerk G P O.
- Family History
- Military history
- Extra information
- Photographs
Family history
Son of Newarkâs former deputy postmaster John and Dora Chapman.
Military history
Wellington Z1110 RAF Oakington, was shot down into the sea by Oblt Ludwig Becker in a Do215 B-5, R4+AP of 6/NJG2, North-West of Terschelling, Netherlands at 22.07, as
it returned from a bombing raid on Emden.
Sgt Peter Chapman
Sgt Arthur Spackman
P/O Colin Curtis
Sgt Herbert Mantle
Sgt Alan Hancox
Sgt Francis Dunn - All missing.
His younger brother Ralph was killed in an accident while serving with the Home Guard, awaiting call up to the Army.
Extra information
Unknown
Photographs
Photo of Peter Lewis Chapman