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L/cpl

George Chapman

Service Number 3882
Military Unit 2nd Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Date of birth Unknown
Date of Death 19 Sep 1918 (26 Years Old)
Place of Birth Unknown
Employment, Education or Hobbies Unknown
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.

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