| Surname: | Chapple |
| Initials: | F R |
| Rank: | Sergeant |
| Army Number: | P/14846 |
| Notes: | MMP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (2a) Balkans, 27/9/1916 to 24/6/1917 and (3) Egypt, 25/6/1917. Formerly Sgt.1 Notts & Derby Regt. No. 276246. 16/2/1919 shown as being given £2 on the Clipstone No.1 Demobilization Acquittance Roll. Extract from the Nottingham Evening Post 7 October 1938. RETIRING AFTER 26 YEARS' SERVICE. A family association with the Notts. Constabulary, extending over a long period, has been broken by the retirement of P.C. F. R. Chapple, one of Mansfied's best known and most popular constables. he has been in the count force for 26 years. His father, the late Sergt. F. Chapple, served for 35 years until his retirement at Kirby in 1921, so that father and son had a combined service of 61 years in the force, Sergt. Chapple died in 1936. The son has spent all his police service in Mansfield, except for the war years, when he served in Salonika and Palestine with the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry and the Military Mounted Police. In Palestine he reached the rank of brigade and divisional sergeant and acted for a time as orderly to Lord Allenby. He is a native of Lowdham. Extract from the Nottingham Journal 87 October 1938 - 26 Years' service - Mansfield P.C. Retires from Notts. Constabulary. P.C. F. R. ("Bob") Chapple has retired from the Notts. Constabulary after 26 years' service. The whole of his service has been at Mansfield. Mr. Chapple's father, Mr. Francis Chapple, who died in 1936, served for 35 years in the Notts. Constabulary, so that father and son had thus a record of 61 years in the force. extending over a period of 52 years. Born at Lowdham Mr. F. R. Chapple had five years in the C.I.D and latterly has been clerk in the borough section of the Mansfield Division. he has been a noted member of police cricket teams in the county. During the war he was with the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry at Salonika and with the Military Mounted Police in Palestine, where he was brigade and divisional sergeant and also for a time orderly to Lord Allenby. |