Name
Walter Jessie Chapman
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/11/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/13326
Queens (Royal West Surrey)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 5 D and 6 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Long Marston Village Memorial, Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
Walter Jesse Chapman was born in 1897 in Long Marston to John Chapman, a farmer’s son, and Mary Louisa (nee Rodwell).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, John (born 1896), Walter Jesse, Joseph Herman (born 1899) were living at Cheddington lane, Long Marston.
On the 1911 Census the family of parents, John, Walter, Herman, Thomas (born 1901), Isabella (born 1904) and Evelyn (born 1907) were living at Church Farm, Long Marston.
Walter’s father died in 1913.
Wartime Service
No Service record was found for Walter who enlisted as Private G/13326 in the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment).
He was posted to 1st Battalion. This Battalion has been in France since 13 Aug 1914 as part of 2nd Division before being transferred on 15 Dec 1915 to 33 Division on its arrival in France to provide experienced personnel to a newly formed Division (Stiffening in Army parlance). Walter may have been with this Battalion a very short time when he was reported killed in action and presumed to have died on 9 Nov 1916. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £3 6s 3d was paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
