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CHAPMAN, Robert Ednie
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 1799 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 4 February 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Anthony Hordern & Sons Ltd. Pictorial HR, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, SN 1799, 17th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 28 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, SN 1799, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Private Chapman served with the 17th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Service No:1799.
He was 27 and the son of Alexander and Jessie Jackson Ednie Chapman of 7 Meldrum Rd., Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland.
He is remembered on the family grave at Abbotshall Churchyard, Kirkcaldy.
He is one of more than 20 Australian casualties of the Great War who are commemorated on the Kirkcaldy War Memorial.
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