Name
Herbert Chapman
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/12/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Company Quartermaster Serjeant
PS/569
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
III. F. 17.
France
Headstone Inscription
IN EVER-LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood
Pre War
Herbert Chapman was born in 1886, in North Luffenham, Rutland & Leicestershire, son of Richard Chapman, a Baker, Grocer and Publican, and Mary Chapman (nee Dixon). He was one of six children Alison B., (B 1881), Richard E., (B 1882), William, (B 1885), Florence (B 1888) and Alice H., (B 1889).
1891 Census records Herbert aged 4, living with his parents, and five siblings at The Horse & Panniers Inn, North Luffenham, Rutland & Leicestershire. The family had a live-in Domestic Servant.
1901 Census record Herbert aged 14, employed as a Railway Clerk, boarding with widow Mrs. Elizabeth Boulder, a boarding house keeper of 9, Algernon Road, West Hendon, Middlesex.
Herbert married Florrie Elizabeth Goodchild, the daughter of Henry and Sarah Goodchild of Notting Hill, London, in the early part of 1908, in Hendon, Middlesex.
1911 Census records Herbert aged 24, employed as a Motor Garage Storekeeper, residing in the family home at 233, Central Park Road, East Ham, London/Middlesex, with his wife Florrie of three years and their two-year-old son Herbert Henry Frank, born in 1909, in Luton, Beds.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted at Kilburn, London, on 14 September 1914 aged 27, his occupation was given as a Dispatch Manager. He joined the 16th (Public Schools) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) with the service number PS/569. Herbert quickly rose through the ranks, being promoted Lance Corporal, in March 1915, Sergeant September, 1916, and Company Quartermaster Sergeant, October 1917.
His Battalion was mobilized for war in November 1915, landing at Boulogne, France on 17th November 1915. Seeing action on the Western Front.
Herbert died of the wounds he received in action at the 3rd Australian General Hospital, Abbeville, France, on 19 December 1917.
The 16th Battalion was formed at St. James Street, in London, on 1 September 1914, by Lt-Col. J. J. Mackay. In September 1915 the Battalion came under the Command of the War Office.
Additional Information
His widow, Florrie received a widows pension of 24/2 a week from 24 June 1918, her pension record card gives her address as 32, Malden Road, Borehamwood, Herts. She also received his effects of £10-5s-2d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £20. Mrs. F. Chapman (Widow), 14, Drayton Road, Boreham Wood, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "IN EVER-LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND". We found no connection for Herbert with Borehamwood other than his widow Florrie lived there for a time after his death.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Taff Williams,
