George Chapman
Service Number
3882
Military Unit
2nd Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Date of birth
Date of Death
19 Sep 1918 (26 years old)
Place of Birth
Unknown
Employment, Education or Hobbies
Unknown
- Family History
- Military History
- Extra Information
- Photographs
Family History
Wife: Mary Elizabeth, nee Dangerfield, married 21/11/1914. Children, Harold Dangerfield Chapman, born 11/05/1913, before is parents marriage, George Henry, born 23/04/1915. Both boys died within a few days of each other, George aged 7 months on 07/11/1915 of whooping cough and Harold aged 2 on 17/11/1915 of gastroenteritis. They lived at 45 Gladstone Street, Mansfield. In 1919 Mary married Uriah Platts.
Military History
Enlisted 12/08/1914
Extra Information
Wounded in the head and returned to England.d on 08/02/1915. Had further periods of illness/injury: myalgia, 24/12-31/12/1915; scabies, 26/01-09/02/1916; wounded, gun shot to left arm, 12/03-17/03/1918 and bronchitis 27/06-23/07/1918.
Photographs
George Chapman
Commonwealth war grave headstone marking his grave at Brie British Cemetery, Somme
Courtesy of Murray Biddle