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Frank Chapman came from a farming background on the Wolds, west of Bridlington, his connection with Beverley began at the time of his marriage in 1915 when he was living in Leven.
He was born into a large farming family in 1890 at Folkton. His mother Elizabeth Chapman was from Cayton and his father William Chapman was a farm foreman, from Folkton. Frank was the youngest son in the family and had 2 brothers and 4 sisters. The family moved around the district regularly in 1891 they are living in Speeton; in 1901 in Reighton; in 1911 Frank had moved out of the family home and was working as a waggoner at Grindale Field, near Bridlington.
He married in Bridlington in Jun 1915 to Minnie L Sissons, born in 1891 and from Hull. Her father was a coster and hawker, living in 1901 at Colonial Street, Hull. A daughter was born in Leven on 26 Apr 1917 and named Susannah. She lived until 1993. However, tragically his wife and second child died in childbirth in Beverley on 17 Jun 1923.
According to the regimental historian, Wryall, Frank served as a private in the 1/4th Battalion Territorials of the East Yorkshire Regiment. On 23 Sep 1916 the Beverley Guardian published a photo of Frank and noted that he had been wounded and lost an eye and was now in hospital in Camberwell, South London. His Battalion had gone in to action on 15 Sep 1916 at Flers-Courcelette on the Somme in France. Frank Chapman continued to live in Leven and died in 1960
Includes photograph, information taken from census, military records, Commonwealth War Graves, newspapers
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