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Captain GEORGE MARTIN CHAPMAN

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Medical Corps

Date of Death

Died 13 May 1915

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE CHATEAU GROUNDS CEMETERY

I. A. 12.

Belgium

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Second son of the Hon. Frederick Revans Chapman, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and Clara Jane Chapman, his wife. M.B. (Cambs.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Lond.). Educated at Waitaki Boys' High School, Otago University, Caius College, Cambridge, and the London Hospital where he filled successively all the offices of the Junior Medical Staff. Gained his Blue for football and half Blue for boxing at Cambridge. Joined the R.A.M.C. at outbreak of War. Decorated with Gold Medal "Pour Courage et Devouement" (France) in Dec., 1914, for saving life in a rough sea off Boulogne.
  • Personal Inscription SON OF MR. JUSTICE F.R. CHAPMAN NEW ZEALAND AND CLARA JANE HIS WIFE
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