Saturday, 21 March 2015

Hoyland Nether St Peter's Churchyard Wilfred Chapman



The family gravestone of Wilfred Chapman
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph by Brian Yarham

Lives of The First World War

Grave Location ?

Inscription:

How sweet their memory still / but death has left an aching void / this world can never fill / also the above named / Martha Hoe / who died Oct. 15th 1922 / aged 68 years / Thy will be done O Lord / also Signlr. Wilfred Chapman / the beloved husband of / Beatrice Chapman / who fell in France / Oct. 9th 1917 / aged 29 years / Until the day break and / the shadows flee away. 

Wilfred Chapman is remembered on the  West Street and Kirk Balk Hoyland War Memorial

Wilfred Chapman is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial and is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.




BWMP # HYL01/4