Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booknm._ Before enlisting he was secretary of the Broken Hill Congregational Church Choir, and also took part in the singing. He was a foundation member of the Young Men's Christian Society of the same church. He belonged to the Y.M.C.A., in the work of which association he took an active part. [Illustration: =Henry N. Chandler.=] =CHANDLER, JOHN KELLMAN=, Private, No. 25935, H Coy., 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of John Kellman Chandler, Planter and Proprietor of Sugar Cane Plantation, Barbados, by his wife, Mary Ida, dau. of Samuel Chandler; _b._ Barbados, B.W.I., 9 Sept. 1889; educ. Combermere School, Bridgetown, Barbados; and on leaving there spent a few years as an Overseer on various Sugar Plantations in Barbados. In May, 1913, he went to Canada and joined the Staff of the C.P.R., but on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered and joined the Royal Montreal Regt. 11 Aug. 1914. He came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent in Oct. 1914 and while training on Salisbury Plain preparatory to going to the Front contracted spinal meningitis and died at Bulford Cottage Hospital, 23 Jan. 1915; _unm._ Major Gault McCombey wrote: "Kellman joined my company of the Royal Montreal Regt. in Aug., and I had formed a very high regard for him as he was one of my most reliable and best men." =CHANDLER, NORMAN=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CHAPLIN, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3573), S.S. 101235, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CHAPLIN, CHARLES SLINGSBY=, Lieut-Col., 9th (Service) Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, _s._ of the late Clifford Waterman Chaplin, of Burrough Hill, Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, J.P., by his wife, Rosa, dau. of William Chaplin, M.P.; _b._ Norfolk Square, Hyde Park, London, 31 May, 1863; educ. Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford; joined the City of London Regt. in May, 1885, from the Militia, and was transferred the same month to the "Green Jackets," and gazetted Capt. to the King's Royal Rifles 1894; served with the Chitral Force under General Low (medal with clasp); and in the South African war as Special Service Officer for Mounted Infantry; and later, from Aug. 1901, in command of the 1st Regt. of Mounted Infantry, doing excellent work in the Transvaal and the line of the Orange River (mentioned in Despatches, medal with five clasps). After the campaign he obtained his majority in 1903, and was posted to the 2nd Battn. King's Royal Rifles at Gharial, in the Punjab; he succeeded to the command of the 3rd Battn. 18 March, 1908, at Crete, and later took the battn. to Malta, afterwards returning to India and serving at Umballa. From half-pay in 1912 he retired, and was placed in the Reserve of Officers, being at the top of the list when mobilisation took place, and was one of the big batch of officers who were given command on 19 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action after a 12 hours' fight, when he and his men had just captured a trench, being shot through the head at Hooge, in Flanders, at 3.30 p.m. 30 July, 1915. He was buried at Chateau Hooge, close to where he fell. The following telegram was sent to the 9th Service Battn. from Headquarters, 2nd Army, at 1 p.m. on 31 July, 1915: "The Army Corps Commander wishes you to convey to the officers and men of the 9th Battn. King's Royal Rifles his appreciation of the way in which they carried out the attack on the trenches north of the Menin Road yesterday afternoon, and maintained themselves under heavy artillery fire." Lieut.-Col. Chaplin _m._ at Bombay, India, 29 Sept. 1905, Gwladys Hamilton (Erbistock House, Ruabon), dau. of Col. Stanley Creek, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and had three sons and a dau.: Clifford, _b._ 23 Sept. 1906; Nigel Gilbert Forbes, _b._ 9 Jan. 1908; Patrick Slingsby, _b._ 4 July, 1910; and Zara, _b._ 18 March, 1914. [Illustration: =Charles Slingsby Chaplin.=] =CHAPLIN, EDWARD ROBERT=, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 6421), 223109, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CHAPLIN, HUMPHREY MARMADUKE=, Lieut. 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. Cheshire Regt., 3rd _s._ of the late Marmaduke Kaye Chaplin, of Etwall, co. Derby; _b._ Etwall, 8 Jan. 1892; educ. Glyngarth School, Cheltenham, and Rossall School, and was a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and a member of the O.T.C. He received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Cheshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914; was attached to the 2nd Battn. on its return from India in Jan. 1915, and left for the Front the same month, being promoted Lieut. Feb. 1915. He was slightly wounded 13 March, and rejoined a month later (19 April). The battn. was moved up immediately afterwards to the advanced trenches in the Ypres salient, from which only a few men returned after the termination of the second battle for Ypres. Lieut. Chaplin was posted missing 11 May, 1915, and was afterwards reported as having been killed in action near Ypres on 8-9 May. He was buried by the Germans near St. Julien; _unm._ Lieut. Chaplin was a Craven scholar, and had gained a first in Moderations, and was a Charles Oldham Prizeman. [Illustration: =Humphrey M. Chaplin.=] =CHAPMAN, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10042), S.S. 112062, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CHAPMAN, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Capt., 3rd Battn. East Surrey Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., eldest _s._ of Thomas Chapman, of Croydon; _b._ Croydon, 20 April, 1873; educ. Whitgift School; joined the Volunteers (Queen's Royal West Surrey Regt.) as a Private in 1888; was Trooper in the Hampshire Carabiniers (Yeomanry) from 1893 to 1897, and 2nd Lieut., to the 3rd Battn. King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt. ... 1899, from which he resigned owing to ill-health. He afterwards joined the 1st Battn. Surrey National Reserve as Lieut. in 1910, was promoted Capt. ... 1912, and after the outbreak of war in 1914 volunteered for foreign service. After a period of training with the 3rd East Surreys, he was attached as a Lieut. (13 Sept. 1914) to the 1st Hampshires, and spent the winter with them in the trenches, being promoted Capt. 2 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Zonnebeke, during the second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: "He won for himself a place in the hearts of his men and of the officers in the regt. during the few short months he was with us, that made his loss one of the worst blows we have received during the war. His solicitude for his men exceeded anything I have ever seen before.... All through the winter in the Plug Street trenches he was simply indefatigable, and withal as cheery as a sandboy--rain, mud, cold and German snipers were individually and collectively unable to subdue his good spirits. I was not with his regt. when the fighting in the Ypres Salient took place, but I have heard the story of that particular day's fighting in which he was killed. The reg |