CHEPMELL William Dobree

  • First Name(s):
    William 
    Dobree 
  • Surname:
    CHEPMELL
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Sussex Regiment
  • Battalion:
    9th Battalion
  • Unit:
    attached Trench Mortar Battery
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    12th April 1917
  • Age At Death:
    21
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, France, Grave I. E. 20.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Charles and Mary Chepmell

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

CHEPMELL William Dobree Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial

Further Information About CHEPMELL William Dobree

Additional information on the memorial: Lieut.

William Chepmell attended Bromsgrove School in Gordon House from 1909 to 1914.  He obtained a commission in September 1914 in The Royal Sussex Regiment, and was transferred in the following August to a Trench Mortar Battery.  He was wounded in March, 1916, but rejoined his Regiment and was hit by a bullet in a great successful attack which took place in a blinding snowstorm.  Chepmell had originally nothing about him which suggested that he was by instinct a soldier, yet his C.O. described as one of the bravest officers he ever knew, and as carrying out a patrol which would only have been done by an unusually determined man.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen.

 

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