Private Joseph Chapman

Army Number : 4216

Battalion : 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of John and Elizabeth Chapman, of 1, Common Side, Swadlincote, Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire. He was a Pipe Carrier prior to enlisting 26th March 1915 at Derby. He went to France 12th October 1915, suffered shell wounds to his back, 20th June 1917 and died of wounds, 23rd January 1917, aged 22, at No. 43 Casualty Clearing Station at Warlincourt, France.

Buried : Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, France. Plot 4. Row G. Grave 2.

Private Joseph Chapman is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Church Gresley War Memorial, Church Gresley, Derbyshire.