Reginald Herbert Clive Chapman

Forenames

Reginald Herbert Clive AWMM

Surname

Chapman AWMM

Service number

12131 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 41 Rimu Street, Frankton Junction, Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Miss H.P. Chapman (daughter), 41 Rimu Street, Frankton Junction, Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Widowed AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Campaign

1941 AWMM Crete AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

12131 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Timber worker/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Driver/Military AWMM 2 Division New Zealand Army Service Corps AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

Driver/Military AWMM
New Zealand Army Service Corps, Reserve Mechanical Transport Company AWMM

• Reginald Chapman was the son of Thomas Chapman and of Edith Wilhelm Chapman (nee Maxwell); husband of Jean Mary Chapman, of Whakatane, New Zealand.
  
  Nominal roll shows name as Reginald Herbert Clime Chapman AWMM
• Reginald Herbert Clive Chapman was married to Helen Julia Nash and had a daughter Helen Jessie Chapman who married Bruce Bracey
  Public - Tamara - Direct descendant - 28 April 2023 - Helen Bracey is my grandmother

Death

21 May 1941 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Place of death

Maleme airfield

Public - Glenn - Other Relative - 7 April 2015 - Source: Oral family history from his brother Keith Chapman - my grandfather.

Cause of death

• Killed on Active Service AWMM
• KIA
  Public - Glenn - Other Relative - 7 April 2015 - Source: Oral family history from his brother Keith Chapman - my grandfather.

Death notes

KIA from aircraft fire whilst defending Maleme Airfield, 21st May 1941. His brother Charles Dale Cha

Public - Glenn - Other Relative - 7 April 2015 - Source: Oral family history from his brother Keith Chapman - my grandfather.

Cemetery

Suda Bay War Cemetery, Crete, Greece AWMM 2. C. 12. AWMM

Memorial name

• Hamilton Memorial Park, Memorial Drive, Hamilton East 3216 AWMM
• Kaikohe War Memorial Hall, Memorial Drive Kaikohe Far North AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/936592
Sources Used

References

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 3: WW2 81
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Davin, D. (1953). Crete. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.