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Marion Dorothy Chapman (1890-1918)


Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse


Shields Daily News, 15 August 1918

Nurse M D Chapman of South Shields

An intimation from the War Office has been received by Mr and Mrs Henry Chapman, of Seacroft, Westoe, South Shields, that their youngest daughter, Miss Marion Dorothy Chapman, VAD nurse, died at Alexandria, of pneumonia, on August 10th. The deceased lady, who was 27 years of age, joined the nursing staff of the VAD Hospital in South Shields in 1915, and was subsequently at Alnwick. Offering for service abroad, she proceeded to Egypt in October, 1917. Miss Chapman’s youngest brother, Major C L Chapman MC, was killed in France some time ago.

Both the North East War Memorials Project site and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission have detailed entries for Marion Chapman (see links below). She was a St John’s nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and died in Egypt, where she is buried.

http://www.newmp.org.uk/article.php?categoryid=99&articleid=1386&displayorder=137

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/476035/CHAPMAN,%20MARION%20DOROTHY

Information about Marion Chapman and a photograph of her have also been added to the Imperial War Museum site “Lives of the First World War”:

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4946051

Civil Parish: South Shields

Birth date: 1890

Death date: 10-Aug-1918

Armed force/civilian: Civilian

Residence: “Seacroft”, Harton, South Shields (1891 and 1901 census)

Organisation membership: VAD

Family: Parents: Henry Chapman, Dora Chapman
Siblings: Ethel Chapman, Hilda Chapman, Henry Chapman, Robert Chapman, George J Chapman, Lawrence A Chapman, Frederick Ernest Chapman, Charles L Chapman, Alan Edward Chapman, Dora E Chapman (1891 and 1901 censuses)

Medal(s): British War Medal
Victory Medal

Memorial(s): Church of St Michael and All Angels, Westoe Road – panel and Book of Rememberance
South Shields Golf Club (NEWMP)
Hadra Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt (CWGC)
Five Sisters Memorial and Window, York Minster

Gender: Female

Contributed by Durham County Record Office