Hedley Ernest Burchfield CHAPMAN

CHAPMAN, Hedley Ernest Burchfield

    Service Number: 18931
    Enlisted: 19 March 1917
    Last Rank: Sapper
    Last Unit: Field Company Engineers
    Born: Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia, 23 October 1896
    Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
    Schooling: Sydney Technical High School, New South Wales, Australia
    Occupation: Surveyor's assistant
    Died: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 26 December 1976, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Not yet discovered
    Memorials: Sydney Technical High School WW1 Roll Of Honour
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    World War 1 Service

    19 Mar 1917: Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 18931, Field Company Engineers
    31 Oct 1917: Involvement Sapper, 18931, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
    31 Oct 1917: Embarked Sapper, 18931, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Euripides, Sydney

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    Biography contributed by Sydney Technical High School

    Hedley Ernerst Burchfield Chapman was born in Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia, on the 23/10/1896 (1). His parents were Ernest Chapman and Amy Beatrice Chapman (2), the family were devout Methodists with Amy attending church as stated in The Methodist, “Almost up to the time of her death she gathered strength at times to attend [church] twice on Sundays.” (3)


    Early in life, Hedley moved to north Sydney, where he began attending Sydney Technical High School in 1911 (4). After his schooling he became a Surveyor's Assistant (5).

    Hedley enlisted 23rd of February 1917, aged 20 at enlistment. He was given the rank of Sapper in the Field Company Engineers for reinforcements to the Western Front (7). He embarked from Australia 31st October 1917 and disembarked at Devonport, England. He marched into Parkhouse for further training and was sent to hospital 6th March 1918 with an in-grown toe nail.

    He was sent to Rouelles, France arriving on the 6th of March 1918, before going A.W.L on the 26th of March for 5 days. He was fined 19 days pay and was given 14 days of Field Punishment No. 2.

    After the war had ended he was granted leave in early 1919 to go back to the UK. He returned from leave and was promoted from Sapper to Lance Corporal in April 1919.

    Iin August, Hedley returned to Australia and was discharged 2nd September 1919.

    Not much is known about Hedley’s life after the war and his return to Australia. In 1927 at the age of 30, he married his wife Alison M Doyle (11) whom he had 2 children with, Ian and Kevin (12). His occupation from 1930 onwards was that of a clerk while his wife was a stay at home mother (13).

    Unfortunately in 1942, Hedley’s mother passed away in north Sydney (14). His wife died in 1970, aged 64 (15) before his own death in 1976, having lived a long life until the age of 80 (16).

     

    References

    1. Anonymous <myheritage.com>

    2.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/279028528?searchTerm=Beatrice%20Chapman

    3.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155475296?searchTerm=Amy%20Beatrice%20Chapman

    4.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xj2-_5QTNtfPides6nJGHVyqu6EmPtK_/view

    5.https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=50538

    6.https://www.jobsandskills.gov.au/data/labour-market-insights/occupations/821915-surveyors-assistants#:~:text=Surveyor's%20Assistants%20perform%20routine%20tasks,and%20collecting%20and%20labelling%20samples.

    7. AIF adfa (n 5)

    8.http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=3232795

    9. AIF adfa (n 5)

    10. NAA (n 8)

    11. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cocYqylw7-gknh58LQq36CV696EL5                9_B/edithttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1cocYqylw7-gknh58LQq36CV696EL59_B/edit

    12.https://www.newspapers.com/image/122729978/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjEyMjcyOTk3OCwiaWF0IjoxNzIyNzQzMTAwLCJleHAiOjE3MjI4Mjk1MDB9.OHXSkatN_woFDnZyJ9tKNAQQXNX8PMq45grCa-gFJXc

    13. Ken Stevenson (n 11)

    14. The Methodist (n 3)

    15. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K8F5-M91/alison-mabel-doyle-1906-1970

    16. Sydney Morning Herald (n 12)

    Bibliography
    Ken Stevenson, Research on Google Drive

    Sydney Morning Herald, 28 December 1976, ‘Deaths’, p.32

    Anonymous <myheritage.com>

    The Pastoral Times, 29 May 1942, ‘Death’, p.1

    The Methodist, 23 May 1942, ‘Obituary’, p.6

    UNSW, The AIF Project, <https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=50538>

    NSW Government, Births, Deaths and Marriages Search, <https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search/result?3>


    Australian Government, Jobs and Skills, <https://www.jobsandskills.gov.au/data/labour-market-insights/occupations/821915-surveyors-assistants#:~:text=Surveyor's%20Assistants%20perform%20routine%20tasks,and%20collecting%20and%20labelling%20samples.>   

    Australian Government, National Archive of Australia, <http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=3232795>

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Family Search, <https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K8F5-M91/alison-mabel-doyle-1906-1970>

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