Charles Chapman [Snr]

Name

Charles Chapman [Snr]
1872

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

12/01/1915
42

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
3/7750
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Searched but not found

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

WENDY (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
Right of main path.
United Kingdom

Headstone Inscription

AT REST

UK & Other Memorials

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

Pre War

Charles Chapman was born in 1872 in Shingay, Cambridgeshire, the son of Archer and Mary Chapman.

On the 1881 Census the family were living in Shingay where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. 

He married Kate Savill in 1902 in Royston and on the 1911 Census they were living at Old Shingay, Royston, Herts with their two children, Charles (born 1903) and Alice (born 1909). Charles was then working as a horseman on a farm. 

Wartime Service

He enlisted in Bedford and served with the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. 

He died at home on 12 January 1915, aged 42, from pneumonia contracted on active service and is buried in Wendy (All Saints) Churchyard, Shingay cum Wendy, Cambs.

Additional Information

His widow received a pension of 18s 6d a week for herself and her two children, which was later increased to £1 1s a week.

Acknowledgments

Brenda Palmer