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Nathan Lewis Chipman
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Lieutenant
219th Battalion
85th Battalion
Yarmouth, NS
February 6, 1897
October 19, 1915
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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5 Feet 6 Inches
Medium
Grey
Dark Brown
Student
Single
Methodist
Lewis Chipman (Father) Yarmouth N.S.
June 16, 1917 (Killed in Action)
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Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas de Calais, France
XXVIII. A. 27.
Commemorated on Page 215 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on May 15
Listed on the Nominal Roll of the 219th Battalion
Nathan Lewis Chipman was the son of Lewis and Margaret Louise Chipman, of Yarmouth, NS.
He enlisted with the 219th Overseas Highland Battalion in Halifax, NS. and served as a Private until
February 24, 1915 when he was discharged to qualify as an officer. He was an Officer Instructor
before being recommended for a commission as a Lieutenant with the 219th Battalion on September
14, 1916.
Lieutenant Chipman embarked Halifax for overseas on October 12, 1916 and disembarked in
Liverpool, England on October 19, 1916. Assigned as a Lieutenant to the 85th Battalion at Witley on
February 9, 1917, he proceeded on February 10, 1917 to France, disembarking at Boulogne for service
with the 85th Battalion.
Between April 28,
1917 and May 7, 1917 he
attended a Lewis Gun
Course, and returned to
the front lines. On June
6, 1917 while in the
vicinity of Lievin, France,
a small town in the
Department of the Pas-
de-Calais, 3.5 kilometres
west of Lens, Lieutenant
Chipman, while serving in
the front trenches, was
killed in action. On June
6, enemy artillery fire
was “exceptionally
active”
Lieutenant Chipman was initially buried in a
cemetery at Lievin and reburied in the Cabaret-
Rouge British Cemetery, south of the town of
Souchez in France.
Nathan Lewis Chipman
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