Henry Stanley CHAPMAN

CHAPMAN, Henry Stanley

Service Number: 1311
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 3rd Infantry Battalion
Born: Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, 9 July 1893
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Telegraph operator with NSW Railways
Died: Killed In Action, France, 25 July 1916, aged 23 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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World War 1 Service

20 Oct 1914: Involvement Private, 1311, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914: Embarked Private, 1311, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
25 Jul 1916: Involvement Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 3 Battalion awm_rank: Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1916-07-25

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Henry Stanley CHAPMAN, (Service Number 1311, Later Lieutenant) was born on 9th July 1893 in Armidale. He commenced working for the NSW Railways as a probationer in the Electrical Branch at Murrurundi on 28 October 1907 when he was just 16 years of age. He retained that job designation but relocated to Sydney in 1912 and to Eskbank where he became a junior operator. On 26 August 1914 he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces. On his Attestation Papers he gave his calling as ‘Telegraphist’. He was not married.


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Biography contributed by John Oakes

Henry Stanley CHAPMAN, (Service Number 1311, Later Lieutenant) was born on 9th July 1893 in Armidale. He commenced working for the NSW Railways as a probationer in the Electrical Branch at Murrurundi on 28th October 1907 when he was just 16 years of age. He retained that job designation but was relocated to Sydney in 1912 and later to Eskbank (Lithgow) were he became a junior operator. On 26th August 1914 he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces. On his Attestation Papers he gave his calling as ‘Telegraphist’. He was not married.

He left Australian via Sydney on board HMAT ‘Euripides’ on 20th October 1914. After further training in Egypt, Henry embarked with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force for Gallipoli on HMT ‘Derfflinger’ at Alexandria on 5th April 1915. He served with the 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion. He landed on Gallipoli on Anzac Day or soon after. The force was evacuated to Alexandria at the end of December. By 25th October he had been promoted to Corporal.  While the AIF refreshed itself in Egypt, before moving to the Western Front, Henry Chapman was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 12th March 1916. He embarked at Alexandria on 22nd March and reached Marseilles a week later.  Further training at the School of Instruction in April led to his promotion to Lieutenant on 29th June.

He was killed in action at Pozières on 25th July 1916. As is common for deaths in that costly and chaotic battle, his body was lost. Therefore he has no known grave. His name is recorded on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Picardie France.

- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

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