Reginald Herbert Clive Chapman

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Reginald Herbert Clive AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Chapman AWMM

Nama Hōia

12131 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

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

Uri kiritahi

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

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Widowed AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

1941 AWMM Crete AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

12131 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Timber worker/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

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

Tuhinga hauora

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

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

Matenga

21 May 1941 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Wāhi Mate

Maleme airfield

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

Te momo matenga

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

Tuhipoka mō te matenga

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.

Urupā

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

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• 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

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

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

Ngā tuhinga

• 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.