Charles Percy CHAPMAN

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CHAPMAN, Charles Percy

Service Number:	2128
Enlisted:	7 April 1915, Dunolly, Vic.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sawtry, Huntingdonshire, England, 1892
Home Town:	Dunolly, Central Goldfields, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Butcher
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 21 August 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 41., Lone Pine Memorial
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

World War 1 Service

7 Apr 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2128, 14th Infantry Battalion, Dunolly, Vic.
17 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 2128, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
17 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 2128, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne
21 Aug 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2128, 14th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, Hill 60

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He was 23 and the son of George and Mary Ann Chapman, of Church St., Sawtry, Peterborough, England.

Sawtry (/soʊtriː/) is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.[1] Sawtry lies approximately 8 miles north of Huntingdon. Sawtry is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.

Births Jun 1892 Chapman Charles Percy Huntingdon 3b 274.

He is remembered on the Sawtry War Memorial.

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