E. W. Chapman

Lieutenant Edward Wynne Chapman (Diploma Course, 1906-1907 Lincoln College), 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, was the eldest son of the late Edward Chapman of Spring bank, New Zealand. He was born in 1887  and educated at Christ's College (1898-1905). He held commissions as Lieutenant in the College Cadets and later in the Christcurch Mounted Rifles. He came to England in 1909 and was attached to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Aldershot during the following year, becoming 2nd Lieutenant in May, and Lieutenant in November, 1911. 

In 1912 he married Elvira Maude, second daughter of H. W. Henderson of Serge Hill, King's Langley, Herts, and went to Egypt, where the Regiment was stationed at Abbasiyeh, Cairo, till the war broke out. 

Arriving in England on the 20th October, he went straight to the front, and was killed in action on the 17th November, 1914, near Ypres, being mention in Sir John French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915, for conspicuous bravery. He was buried in the cemetery at Ypres.

Lieutenant Chapman leaves a daughter, born in March, 1915. Source: Internet archive: Clutterbuck, L.A; Dooner, W. The bond of sacrifice; a biographical record of all British officers who fell in the Great War, Vol. 1 Aug-Dec 1914; The Biographies: pg. 73