Lieutenant Edward Wynne Chapman (Diploma Course, 1906-1907 Lincoln College), 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, was the eldest son of the late Edward Chapman of Spring bank, New Zealand. He was born in 1887 and educated at Christ's College (1898-1905). He held commissions as Lieutenant in the College Cadets and later in the Christcurch Mounted Rifles. He came to England in 1909 and was attached to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Aldershot during the following year, becoming 2nd Lieutenant in May, and Lieutenant in November, 1911.
In 1912 he married Elvira Maude, second daughter of H. W. Henderson of Serge Hill, King's Langley, Herts, and went to Egypt, where the Regiment was stationed at Abbasiyeh, Cairo, till the war broke out.
Arriving in England on the 20th October, he went straight to the front, and was killed in action on the 17th November, 1914, near Ypres, being mention in Sir John French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915, for conspicuous bravery. He was buried in the cemetery at Ypres.
Lincoln University Living Heritage: Tikaka Tuku Iho (8th Jul 2021). E. W. Chapman. In Website Lincoln University Living Heritage: Tikaka Tuku Iho. Retrieved 5th Nov 2024 13:03, from https://livingheritage.lincoln.ac.nz/nodes/view/675