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Surname: CHAPMAN
Forename(s): William Raymond
Place of Birth: Grassington, Yorkshire
Service No: 121066
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 'B' Coy 53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion
Division: ---
Age: 18
Date of Death: 1919-02-23
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: In New ground.
CWGC Cemetery: LINTON-IN-CRAVEN (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: GRASSINGTON, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: LINTON-IN-CRAVEN, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
William Raymond Chapman (born 19 May 1900) was the son of John and Jane Ann Chapman, née Watson. John was born at Grassington, Yorkshire and Jane at Sockburn, Co. Durham.
1901 Grassington, Yorkshire Census: Main Street - William R. Chapman, aged 10 months, born Grassington, son of John and Jane A. Chapman.
1911 Grassington, Yorkshire Census: William Raymond Chapman, aged 10 years, born Grassington, son of John and Jane Ann Chapman.
The British Army Service Record for William Raymond Chapman exists but may be incomplete.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte William Raymond Chapman, 7th Res[erve] Notts & Derby. Date and Place of Death: 23.2.19. Mil. Hospital, Catterick Camp, Yorkshire. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Mother - Jane A. £8 12s. 9d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: Pte Wm. Raymond Chapman, 121006, Notts & Derby. Date and cause of death: 23.2.19. Exhaustion. Name(s) on card(s): Dependant: Mrs Jane Ann Chapman, born 1863. Relationship: Mother. Address: Market Place, Grassington, Yorks. Pension Nominee: Charles D. Watson, Nagshead Gardens, Blackhall, Darlington, P/O Durham. [In 1939 Jane Ann, a widow, was living with Charles D. Watson and his wife Nora Isabel, at Poor Close, Croft Road, Darlington.]
William is commemorated on the Midland Railway War Memorial at Derby.
A short biography of William is included in: ‘Swaledale & Wharfedale Remembered – Aspects of Dales’ life through peace and war’ by Keith Taylor (2006).
See also: ‘Silva Gars’ by John Crowther (1930).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
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Private William Raymond CHAPMAN
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
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07 March 1919
GRASSINGTON - PTE. R. CHAPMAN A VICTIM OF INFLUENZA
The funeral, attended with military honours of Private Raymond Chapman, took place at Linton Church yesterday week. Private Chapman died, from pneumonia, following influenza, at Catterick Camp, Richmond. He was in his 19th year and was the son of the late Mr. John Chapman, an old Grassingtonian, who died last December. The body was brought to Grassington by ten soldiers of the Notts and Derby Regiment, with which deceased had served, and there was a large attendance at the funeral. Much sympathy is felt throughout the district for the widowed mother. We will give a photograph next week.
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