Wetherby War Memorial - The Great War 1914 - 1918

Gunner Edwin Chapman

Introduction
Gunter, R B N
Durrant, C M
Weston, C G
Kelly, K G
Armitage, G J
Durrant, H M L
Hargreaves, J P
March, G
Dukes, W
Fowler, R
Westerman, H
Kirk, J C
Wiggins, T A
Telford, G
Harper, J W
Alexander, H W
Mason, T F
Wilkinson, W
Brown, C
Adkin, J
Barton, F
Hobman, A
Webster, A E
March, E A
Miller, G
Hannan, E
Utley, G
Walker, F
Bygrave, E W
Chapman, E
Varley, N W
Bowen, F J
Byrom, F
Backhouse, S
Dalby, M
Crossland, A
Crossley, J S
Dean, R
Frost, A E
Hodgson, F H
Holt, J
Hood, W H
Hill, W
Kitchen, T
Linfoot, E
Metcalfe, J C
Marsden, J
Pawson, W
Precious, G
Scutt, T G
Shields,P
Wiggins, J
Walker, E
Wood, A
Young, T
Pratt, W
Taylor, H
Dawson, G W
Lister, J
Binge, T
Atack, G
Durham, E F
Precious, G R
Wheelhouse Smith, W
Backhouse, H
Swann, J W
Burnsides, G A
Coles, W
Kelly, H W
Miles, J G
Tapsell, K
Acknowledgements
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186849
"C" Battery, 119th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Died 5th August 1917, age 24

Cemetery : Oak Dump Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave Reference or Panel Number : C.10

Son of Henry and Annie Chapman, of "Highfield", Hutton Rudby, Yorkshire.
Edwin was born in 1894 at Hutton Rudby, his father's occupation being a Farmer.

By August 1915, the 119th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, had joined the 38th (Welsh) Division, but left this on January 14th 1917 to become an Army Brigade attached to the Second Army.

Edwin Died of Wounds received in the series of actions known as Third Ypres or Passchendaele which was fought from 7th June till the 10th November 1917.

Formerly served as R/20380, 21st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps.