Joseph's Roman Catholic School in Aldershot, the Army School at Blackdown in Hampshire and Guildford Technical College.Īfter leaving school, Chappell briefly served an industrial blacksmith apprenticeship with 13 Command Workshop REME. His siblings are Anthony Chappell (born 1936), who served in the Royal Corps of Signals Anna Chappell (born 1940), and Russell Chappell (born 1944). Mike Chappell's late parents were Samuel Chappell (a Warrant Officer in the Royal Army Service Corps) and Kathleen (née Green). His maternal grandfather, Pte George Green was among a group of soldiers of the Royal Welch Fusiliers killed in France on 14 September 1915 while laying a signal line to an outpost he is buried in the Guards Cemetery at Windy Corner near Cuinchy. Michael John William Chappell BEM (14 September 1934 – 10Īugust 2020), better known as Mike Chappell, was an English military historian and illustrator of military books.Ĭhappell came from an Aldershot family with links to the British Army going back several generations.
Mike Chappell (as writer and illustrator)
0 kommentar(er)
