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Sergeant ERNEST WALTER JAMES CHAPMAN

Service Number: 580408
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

86 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 29 May 1940

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY

1A. C. 10.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Jessie May Chapman, of Nonington, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL, HIS UNFINISHED LIFE. MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY
Meurthe-et-Moselle France
Number of casualties: 803
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