Arthur Edward Chapman, killed in action World War II – 1943, aged 24 years.
Rank Flight Sergeant
Unit No. 100 Squadron (RAF)
Service Royal Australian Air Force
Conflict/Operation Second World War, 1939-1945
Date of Death 28 May 1943
Place of Death Netherlands
Cause of Death Flying Battle
Cemetery or Memorial Details Witmarsum Protestant Churchyard, Witmarsum, Friesland, Netherlands
Some of the Australian Servicemen stationed at the “Hygene camp” during World War II. The camp was bounded by the area from Payne and Waterworks Roads, along to Walton Bridge.
Bill Best (on the left) and his cousin Mervyn Kay in the front yard of their grandparents home in Payne Road, circa 1940s.
A young Bill Best from The Gap, photographed in 1944 in Toowoomba while serving in the army.
Bill Best in uniform in the garden of the Payne Road home of this grandfather, Alfred John Best, in 1940.
Bill Best with his army mates outside the School of Arts Hotel, Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, circa 1944.
Bill Best’s army unit stationed in Warwick in the area previously known as Scotts College. Photograph circa 1944.
Merv Kay (2nd from the right) with other dispatch riders photographed in Townsville, circa 1942, before Merv’s service in New Guinea.
A young Ross Lane Black, circa late 1930s. On his return from World War II Ross married and the family lived in a cottage in Waterworks Road near Walton Bridge, The Gap.
One of the many U.S. servicemen who frequented the Easton shop during the war, enjoying the company of the Easton’s parrot. The U.S. army established a search-light post on the Berry’s property in a location opposite the present-day High School at The Gap.
United States Servicemen, Tony, Ed, Phillippe and Steve, man a machine gun, adjacent to the searchlight on the Berry farm during WWII.
