LEST WE FORGET 69 CHAPMAN (HOLMES), Peggy F. WWII Peggy was born on April 25, 1925, in Bromhead, Saskatchewan. She enlisted with the CWAC in September 1943. She was posted to the Training Centre as Orderly Room Clerk, and then transferred to Head Quarters Pacific Command as clerk in Command Records. She received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and theWar Medal 1939-1945.While stationed in Vancouver she married George Chapman. She was discharged in September 1945. She was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 60 and 306. She later joined the Ladies Auxiliary Branch and served as President for a number of years. Peggy passed away in April 1998. CHRISTOPHERSON, Clifford WWII Clifford was born in Maidstone in 1917, the son of Thoralf and Jessie May Christopherson. He went to school in Marsden and was working for Imperial Oil at Neilberg when he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was married to Phyllis Irene (Heather). Clifford passed away on October 26, 1946, at age 26, in the crash on take-off of a Ventura at Dorval en route to his Ferry Command Post at Goose Bay, Labrador. He is buried at Birch Hills. CHAPMAN, Thomas Ernest WWI Thomas Ernest Chapman was born in Westwell, County Kent, England on October 29, 1885. He was the middle child of five born to Thomas and Harriet Maria (Millen) Chapman. He was farming in Bounty when he enlisted in Winnipeg on March 29, 1916, at the age of thirty. He did basic training at Camp Hughes and departed from Halifax for England on December 21, 1916, spending Christmas Day at sea. All of his service was in England with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was hospitalized at Kitchener Hospital in Brighton on March 9, 1917. Private Thomas Chapman returned to Canada on August 2, 1919. He died on February 25, 1964, at the age of 78. He is buried in the Surrey Centre Cemetery, Surrey, BC.
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