Name
Cyril Edward Chaplyn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Essex Regiment
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 51 and 52.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, Not on the Watford memorials (*1)
Pre War
Son of William Edward and the late Beatrice Mary (nee CONQUEST) CHAPLYN; husband of Annie Louisa (nee RAYMENT) CHAPLYN of Watford.
His parents married 16 April 1884 at St Michael’s, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts. Beatrice died 29 May 1907 in Greenwich, London, aged 47, and was buried 1 June in Ladywell Cemetery, London.
Cyril was born 14 October 1888 in Diss, Norfolk, and baptised there 3 May 1889. He married 1917 in the Watford district; they had one child. Annie never remarried and died 1953 in the Harrow, Middx, district aged 67.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1891 Census, aged 2 he lived in Diss, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, aged 12 he lived in Greenwich, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a bank clerk aged 22, he was a boarder in Hertford.
Wartime Service
He attested in the Territorial Force for 4 years’ service in the U.K. 29 November 1915 at Dukes Road, London W.C. Private 5474 28th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles): 27, 5’5″ tall, of Hatfield, Herts. He served at Home 29 November 1915 to 20 April 1916, and with the B.E.F. 21 April 1916 to 24 February 1917, embarking Southampton 21 April 1916 arriving Rouen the next day. He was discharged in consequence of appointment to a commission with the 10th Battalion Essex Regiment 25 February 1917. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action at Hangard Wood during the German Spring Offensive on the Somme.
Additional Information
*1 At present we do not know if his connection through his wife is his only connection to Watford. There is an article about and a Death announcement for Cyril in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 25 May 1918; plus an In Memoriam in the issue dated 26 April 1919.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
