Chapman Charles Wesley Jr.

Monuments

The Lafayette Escadrille Memorial

American Volunteer Monument

Name:

Charles Wesley Jr. Chapman

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

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Unit:

Lafayette Escadrille

Date of Death:

1918-05-03

State:

Iowa

Cemetery:

Lafayette Escadrille Memorial, Marnes la Coqu

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Son of C. W. Chapman, he enlisted April of 1917 while at Amherst college in Massachusetts. Together with a half dozen college men he entered the ambulance corps and was sent to France. He decided he could be of more service as an aviator and accordingly began training and became attached to the Lafayette Escadrille. He fell in flames behind the German lines on May 3, 1918, after a desperate air encounter in which he shot down his adversary.