Practical info
Name
CHAPMAN
First name
GEORGE MARTIN
Date of death
13/05/1915
Title
Captain
Extra information
CHAPMAN, Captain, GEORGE MARTIN, Royal Army Medical Corps attd. 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays). Killed in action 13th May 1915. Age 28. Second son of the Hon. Frederick Revans Chapman, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and Clara Jane Chapman, his wife. M.B. (Cambs.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Lond.). Educated at Waitaki Boys' High School, Otago University, Caius College, Cambridge, and the London Hospital where he filled successively all the offices of the Junior Medical Staff. Gained his Blue for football and half Blue for boxing at Cambridge. Joined the R.A.M.C. at outbreak of War. Decorated with Gold Medal "Pour Courage et Devouement" (France) in Dec., 1914, for saving life in a rough sea off Boulogne. I. A. 12.
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