Thomas Percy Chapman

Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery, Epehy, France

Thomas (Percy) S. Chapman

Sergeant No. 8359 (48355?)  1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment.

Killed in action in France 22 March 1918. Age 32.

Buried in Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery, France. IV.4.F10.

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Born in 1886.

Locating Percy’s family history in Ancestry has proved difficult and the best possibility is that he grew up in the York workhouse (which was in Clifton) – there is a record for a Chapman family with Percy of the right age.

Son of Thomas Chapman.

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Percy Chapman came to Malpas in March 1915 as a patient for The Bolling VAD Hospital after being injured at Ypres.

This is where we think he met his future wife Maud Mould of Kidnal House, Malpas.

He married Maud at St. Oswald's Church in July 1917.

We have established that she is shown as a visitor to Kidnal House, Malpas in the 1911 Census and have to assume that Percy Chapman's widow had associations with the place to be shown as living there after her husband's death.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) record indicates Percy's widow lived in Malpas.

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Percy was then sent back to fight, leaving his wife and future widow in Malpas.

He died in France in March 1918 in the final German offensive of the war.

James Mould was the son of Maud M. Mould, the mother in law (Brother in Law) of Percy Chapman.