Walter Henry Chapman

A Private with 727 Company, Walter died on 22nd of March 1918 at the age of 28. 

Walter was born at Lowestoft on 31 November 1890, a son of William George and Emma Jane Chapman. He was baptised at Christ Church, Lowestoft, on 19 August 1891 and his family lived at 61 Queens Road. By 1901 they were living at 86 Oxford Road, and in 1911 Walter was a house and ship painter. 

Prior to the First World War Walter moved to Selby, Yorkshire. 

Walter enlisted in the Army at York. He joined the Durham Light Infantry, service number 47882. He was then posted to France and transferred to West Yorkshire Regiment, service number 46451. Next, he was transferred to the Labour Corps, service number 387679. 

As Labour Corps companies were not required to keep war diaries, and Walter’s service papers have not survived, there is no more information about what happened to Walter other than that his death was presumed to have taken place on 22 March.