Background
He was born at Marulan to wheelwright and publican Richard Chapman and Monica Cain.
He was born at Marulan to wheelwright and publican Richard Chapman and Monica Cain.
He attended the local public school and then Street Patrick"s College in Goulburn before becoming a schoolteacher.
From 1917 to 1918 he served in the Australian Imperial Force as a private. Unmarried and childless, Chapman died some time in 1945.