Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookdon to study medicine and passed the conjoint Boards Examination, under which he subsequently became M.R.C.S. In 1907, however, he decided to go to Cambridge, where he remained until 1910, studying medicine and graduating in Arts. He then returned to the London Hospital and went through all the appointments held by the Junior Staff. When war broke out he was House Physician, but was already appointed House Surgeon. Owing to shortage he had to hold both appointments until he went to Shorncliffe in Sept. 1914. He was gazetted a Lieut., R.A.M.C., on the 11th of that month, went to the Front, and was attached to the 2nd Dragoon Guards in Feb. While serving in No. 11 General Hospital at Boulogne, a small vessel was wrecked in a gale on 7 Dec. All but the skipper got away from her. Two British soldiers attempted without success to rescue this man and had themselves to be put under treatment. Lieut. Chapman swam out and gripped the old skipper as he was drowning, and both were dragged ashore. For this he was awarded, by the French Government, the Gold Medaille de Souvetage, inscribed "pour courage et dévouement," and was commended in a British Routine Order. The two privates received silver medals. He was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 13 May, 1915, when his regt. was holding the trenches on the Zonnebeke Road, a little east of Ypres. He and the men who were standing by him were killed instantaneously by a shell while attending the wounded machine gunners, and was buried with two other officers of the same regt. in the grounds of the Chateau of Potijge; _unm._ The Major of the Bays wrote: "We were in the trenches under a very severe shell fire. Your son was most gallantly attending to the wounded when a shell killed him instantly, as well as two men who were standing by him. We took his body back and buried him in the grounds of a chateau just east of Potijge cross roads, a small village east of Ypres. I cannot tell you what a loss he is to this regt.; he had only been with us two months, but was most popular with officers and men. Please accept the sympathy of the entire regt. with your great loss, and you have the great consolation that he died doing his duty very gallantly as a soldier should"; and the Col. of the 1st Cavalry Division: "I, in common with all who knew your son, would like to express our sincere condolence to his family. His gallant conduct throughout the engagement won him the admiration of officers and men alike; he died a noble death attending wounded in the trenches under a murderous fire. His death deprives me of one of the best officers that ever served under me, and I again tender you my deepest sympathy in your great bereavement." When at Cambridge he was a noted athlete, taking his blue in Rugby football in 1907, and subsequently his half-blue in boxing. In both of these sports he upheld the name of his hospital when in London, and also played for other clubs, notably, for the Harlequins. One of his teachers, writing in the British Medical Journal, 29 May, 1915, said: "Perhaps at his age it is inevitable that his athletic gifts should attract more attention than his high mental abilities and sterling moral sense, which in later years would have readily won him a new renown. He was cast in a heroic mould, and, while it is no doubt true nothing became him more than the manner of his death, it is but cold comfort to many who mourn the early end of so admirable a life--the sudden quenching of so much vital and kindly force." [Illustration: =George Martin Chapman.=] =CHAPMAN, HARRY REYNOLDS=, Major, 10th (Service) Battn. Durham L.I., eldest _s._ of the late Capt. Abel Henry Chapman, formerly 19th Hussars, and chairman-director of Messrs. Clarke, Chapman & Co.'s Works, Gateshead-on-Tyne, by his wife, Mary (Colinton, Midlothian), dau. of John Fraser; _b._ Benares, India, 27 April, 1868; educ. Uppingham. On leaving school in 1891 he entered his father's works and became a director in 1893. He was keenly interested in a volunteer corps of Royal Engineers raised in the works, of which he became Major. On the outbreak of the war he offered his services and received a commission in the 10th Service Battn. of the Durhams. Major Chapman was killed in action in France, 27 June, 1915. He _m._ Elinore Phyllis (Wingfield, Eagle Lane, Snaresbrook, Essex), dau. of John Larkin, and left three daus.; Elinore Mary, _b._ 15 Feb. 1899; Dorothy Harriet, _b._ 5 Aug. 1900; and Phyllis Agatha, _b._ 8 May, 1904. [Illustration: Harry R. Chapman.] =CHAPMAN, HERBERT ALFRED=, Private, No. 2221, 4th Suffolk Regt., _s._ of William Chapman, of Norwich, Carpenter; _b._ Norwich, 9 March, 1870; educ. Boys' Model School there; was in the employ of Messrs. Cowell, Ltd., as a Compositor for over 20 years; volunteered and enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, was wounded in action there, 16 May, 1915, and died at the Dover Military Hospital, 21 May following. Capt. E. L. Brown wrote: "I consider him a man of the highest rank. No officer could want a more willing soldier, no soldier could desire a better comrade." Lieut. A. Brunzee also wrote saying what a splendid example he set his younger companions. He _m._ at St. Nicholas' Chapel, Ipswich, 21 Aug. 1898, Priscilla Jane, dau. of Thomas Pizzy, of High Street, Ipswich, Greengrocer, and had seven children: Arthur Frederick, _b._ 4 March, 1907; Millicent Bertha, _b._ 9 Jan. 1900; Dorothy May, _b._ 11 Feb. 1902; Ruby Cecily, _b._ 20 March, 1905; Marjorie Florence, _b._ 5 Aug. 1908; Winnifred Laura, _b._ 7 June, 1910; and Ellen Mary, _b._ 27 May, 1913. [Illustration: =Herbert Alfred Chapman.=] =CHAPMAN, JOE=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8437), 294702, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CHAPMAN, PERCEVAL CHRISTIAN=, Capt., Royal Artillery, attd. 26th (Jacob's) Mountain Battery, 2nd _s._ of the Rev. Theodore Charles Chapman, M.A., Secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, and late Vicar of Christ Church, Clifton, by his wife, Alice Barr, dau. of the late Patrick Keith, of 26, Queen's Gate Gardens, S.W.: _b._ Laxey Parsonage, Isle of Man, 10 March, 1884; educ. Clifton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was Tombs Memorial scholar. He was gazetted to the Royal Garrison Artillery, 15 July, 1903, and promoted Lieut. 15 July, 1906. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, was promoted Capt. 30 Oct. 1914. From July, 1907, he had served with the 26th (Jacob's) Mountain Battery of the Indian Army. He died at Alexandria, 1 May, 1915, of wounds received in action during the landing at Gaba Tepe on 25 April, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Perceval C. Chapman.=] =CHAPMAN, PHILIP GEORGE=, Private, No. 1742 (Pioneer), B Coy., 4th Battn. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, 4th _s._ of Philip George Chapman, of 3A, Franche Court Road, Tooting, S.W., Coachbuilder, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of the Rev. Charles Carter, Baptist Minister; _b._ Tosto |