Lieutenant George Martin Chapman RAMC, 23/6/1887-13/5/1915.

JUDGE CHAPMAN'S SON KILLED.

WELLINGTON, May 18

Private advices received here to-day announce the death of Lieutenant George Martin. Chapman, son of Mr Justice Chapman. Deceased was killed in action in France.  -Ashburton Guardian, 18/5/1915.

From the RAMC WW1 page.

The British Medical Journal publishes a very sympathetic biographical notice of the late Lieut. George Martin Chapman, who was killed by a shell while attending a wounded soldier in France. The Journal says: — "When the war began he was serving as house surgeon at the London Hospital, and joined the R.A.M.C. Special Reserve as lieutenant on 10th September, 1914. Early in 1915 he received a decoration from the French Government for saving the lives of several fishermen wrecked in a rough sea off Boulogne. At the time of his death he was attached to the 2nd Dragoon Guards as medical officer. One of his teachers writes: 'Chapman, or "George," as he was known to more than his intimates, was one who received in the most generous measure the respect and affection of all who knew him. Perhaps at his age it was inevitable that his athletic gifts should attract more attention than his high mental abilities and sterling moral sense, which in later years would have surely won him a new renown. He was cast in a heroic mould, and, while it is no doubt true nothing became him more than the manner of his death, it is but cold comfort to the many who mourn the early end of so admirable a life — the sudden quenching of so much vital and kindly force.'   -Evening Post, 13/7/1915.

LIEUTENANT G. M. CHAPMAN. 

Mr Justice Chapman and family have presented a massive silver challenge cup to the Waitaki Boys' High School in memory of the late Lieutenant George Martin Chapman. R.A.M.C.. who was killed in action near Ypres on May 13th. 1910. The late Lieut. Chapman was a boarder at the Waitaki High School for seven years 1898—1904. He was a very prominent figure in the athletic life of the school, notably in football, swimming, and boxing. Before his departure he was the acknowledged head of the School and was a recognised leader in work and play. .At Caius College, Cambridge University, while graduating he won his "blue" in both football and boxing, and had the honour of representing England. At the opening of the war he volunteered for service, and was attached to the General Hospital (Military) at Boulogne. Here his swimming prowess led to a gallant rescue of a life from a shipwrecked trawler. For this gallant act he was awarded the French Naval Gold Medal, pour Courage el Devouement (December, 1914). He was then attached to the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), and was killed in action while attending the wounded near Ypres, in Belgium, May 13th, 1915. The valuable memorial trophy presented to the School stands 20 inches high on its ebony plinth, and is a singularly handsome specimen of the silversmiths' art. It. is engraved: "Waitaki High School, George Chapman Memorial Challenge Cup — Presented in Memory of the late Lieutenant George Martin Chapman. R.A.M.C.. Waitaki High School. 1898-1904. Killed in action near Ypres. May 13th, 1915." The cup is to be held annually by the School senior boxing champion.  -Press, 13/8/1915.

From "Historypin."

Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.