Name
Edward Ellis Chapman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Pioneer
172639
Royal Engineers
6th Divisional Signal Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay1
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Tilehouse St., Baptist Church War Memorial, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
After being apprenticed to Mr Charles Holmes, he became a printer by trade and at one time had a small business in Potton. He was a married man with six children, the eldest being aged thirteen, and lived at 58, Lancaster Ave, Hitchin.
He joined the army whilst working in London in June 1916. ‘Soldiers died’ database shows an Edward E. Chapman born in Hitchin, residing and enlisting there.
Wartime Service
His Corps Number was 172639 and he was with the 6th Divisional Signal Company Royal Engineers. He was killed in action in France on the first day of the German onslaught known as the ‘Spring Offensive’.
He has no known grave and is remembered in Bay I of the Arras Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
