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