Shoeing Smith Cecil Percy Chapman DCM, formerly No.1817, served in the Essex Yeomanry and was a recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal during World War 1.
Biography
Chapman entered France on 24 September 1915. Papers kept by Lieutenant Colonel Whitmore show him serving in Headquarters Squadron; he was appointed Shoeing Smith on 2 May 1917, along with A Squadron, he was attached to the 5th Dragoon Guards in April 1918 and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for operations on 8 August 1918 near Vauvilliers.
The award was announced in the London Gazette on 3o October 1918 with the following citation:
For conspicuous gallantry during an attack. Though badly wounded and alone, he brought in at the point of his sword three enemy officers who were all armed with revolvers, and handed them over. But for his splendid pluck and determination, these officers would have been collecting and organising scattered parties of the enemy.
On 8 August 1918 he was listed as "missing, Prisoner of war" when he should have been marked wounded.