Charles Chapman [Jnr]

Name

Charles Chapman [Jnr]
1896

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

11/03/1916

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
16396
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY
I. L. 12.
Belgium

Headstone Inscription

None

UK & Other Memorials

Shingay cum Wendy War Memorial, Guilden Morden War Memorial, Cambs

Pre War

Charles Chapman was born in 1896 in Old Shingay, Cambridgeshire, the son of Abel and Martha Chapman and one of five children, although one died in infancy.

On the 1901 Census the family were living at Old Shingay Cottages, where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. By 1911 they had moved to Flex Lane, Steeple Morden, Cambs, at which time 15 year old Charles was working as a farm labourer.

(His mother's address on pension records was later given as South Farm, Shingay, nr Royston.)

Wartime Service

He enlisted in Royston and served with the 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment in France from 30 August 1915.

Charles was killed in action on 11 March 1916 when the Battalion were in trenches near Poperinghe. The war diary records only 1 O.R. (other ranks) killed that day. He is buried in Menin Road South Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 

Additional Information

His father received a war gratuity of £6 and pay owing of £4 14s 1d. Pension cards exist with his mother as dependant but give no indication of the amount of pension received. 

Acknowledgments

Brenda Palmer
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