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Hal Brougham Chapman who died of Illness on 19th September 1918 was the son of Mr. Robert McDonald CHAPMAN and Ethel nee BROUGHAM. He was born 1889 in Wagga Wagga, NSW and entered the School in 1904. On leaving in 1905 he went to the Southport High School, Queensland and on leaving there joined a survey party in West of Queensland for a year. He then joined the staff at a bank, and in 1911 went to University of Pennsylvania USA where he studied architecture until the outbreak of the war, when he went to England in October 1914 and joined a special unit of New Zealanders enlisted in London which, early in 1914, went to Egypt. He took part in the Landing on Gallipoli on 25th April 1915 and in further operations at Anzac till Evacuation. Later he took part in operations in Egypt, being promoted to Corporal in New Zealand Mechanical Transport. He arrived in France in 1917 and took part in further operations there till April 1918 when he left for Australia on six months leave. On the way to Australia from New Zealand he was wrecked in s.s. 'Wimmera' which was sunk by an enemy mine, and as a result of his exposure then and the previous strain of war service he died on 19th September 1918 at his home in Bathurst, New South Wales.

War Services Old Melburnians 1914 - 1918