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248002Rfmn. Bertie Fredrick John Chapman
British Army 2/10th Battalion London Regiment
from:193 Sheringham Avenue, Manor Park, London
(d.8th Aug 1918)
Bertie Chapman is my maternal Great Uncle. I found his information via the CWGC Archives as he is buried at Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery. It has taken a while to trace him as the only information my Mum had was that Bertie was a family name and we did not know whether this was a nickname, and if so, what his registered name was, and which name would have been used to be registered with the Army. The other information she had was that he had no formal memorial and we thought he had died in 1915. Fortunately we had the full names of his Father (next of kin) and Mother, which is what enabled me to find him. We are glad to have found him as a local memorial in Manor Park that my Mum remembers from the 1940's and 50's does not seem to have been preserved and we were hoping to use this to check his name. Like others, I remember his photograph from visits to my Grandma when I was young, my Mum has found a good copy of this photo, and has another one of him with other members of his Battalion. Bertie was the oldest child in the family and sadly, three other children died of diptheria after the end of the war.
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