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Many thanks for your help.

The father's occupation will be recorded on this birth cert.
If he was in the Forces, it will say so

Births Sep 1916 (>99%)
Chapman George Bark Horncastle 7a 924

NO WW1 records on FMP matching the above

1901

Name: John Chapman
Age: 14
Estimated birth year: abt 1887
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Father: Charles Chapman
Mother: Elizabeth Chapman
Birth Place: Cadeby, Lincolnshire, England
Civil Parish: Minting
Ecclesiastical parish: Minting
Town: Minting
County/Island: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Registration district: Horncastle
Sub-registration district: Wragby
ED, institution, or vessel: 3
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 3068
Folio: 28
Page Number: 8
Household schedule number: 56
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles Chapman 53
Elizabeth Chapman 48
Kate Chapman 19
Anne Chapman 16
John Chapman 14
Charles Chapman 12
Thomas Chapman 9
George Chapman 7


1911

Name: John Chapman
Age in 1911: 24
Estimated birth year: abt 1887
Relation to Head: Visitor
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Cadeby, Lincolnshire, England
Civil Parish: Bardney
County/Island: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Street address: Shickthorn Farm Bardney Lincoln
Marital status: Single
Occupation: Farm Labourer
Registration district: Lincoln
Registration District Number: 418
Sub-registration district: Lincoln South West
ED, institution, or vessel: 2
Piece: 19699
Household Members:
Name Age
John William Bark 53
Elizabeth Bark 54
Ellen Bark 26
John William Bark 23
George Bark 21
Sophia Bark 18
James Bark 15
John Chapman 24.Farm Labourer

Name: John Chapman
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Birth Date: 1887
Marriage Date: 1911
Marriage Place: Bardney, Lincs, England
Father: Charles Chapman
Spouse: Ellen Bark
FHL Film Number: 1541957
Reference ID: 2:3Q3L559

The poster doesn't give all the info they have, I asked for full names and on another thread there's evidence more was known than the info on here. I shan't be back

The man who married Doris Smith was born 1914 - allegedly

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1378144

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1378032

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1378129

There are probably other threads as well

IF the 1914 birth is the man who married Smith - these were his parents. The poster doesn't have any certs to back up the statements made

Marriages Jun 1911 (>99%)
Back Ellen Lincoln 7a 1253
Bark Ellen Lincoln 7a 1253
Bask Ellen Lincoln 7a 1253
Chapman John Lincoln 7a 1253

1939 for him is on one - at least - of the other threads.

DOB 08/02/1887

Found another John W

CHAPMAN, JOHN WINGATE MMN LICE
GRO Reference: 1885 D Quarter in HORNCASTLE Volume 07A Page 559

Several John W medals cards for army and navy, with so little info on the cards I can't tell if it's the correct one. Can't see attestation documents so unable to identify regiment, corps or navy

No John W born in Lincs 1887 but

CHAPMAN, JOHN WILLIAM MOLLSHER
GRO Reference: 1885 D Quarter in SPALDING Volume 07A Page 389

CHAPMAN, JOHN WILLIAM ASHLEY
GRO Reference: 1886 M Quarter in LINCOLN Volume 07A Page 505

he's John W according to this marriage

Doris E Smith
Registration Date: Apr 1942
[May 1942]
[Jun 1942]
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration district: Horncastle
Inferred County: Lincolnshire
Spouse: John W Chapman
Volume Number: 7a
Page Number: 1887

He married in 1942 to Doris Smith

Over 70% of the documents relating to service in WW1 were destroyed in the bombing of WW2.

Have you anymore information, e.g. was he married, did he survive, was he just John Chapman.

I have been told John Chapman born 1887 Lincs was in the First World War does anyone have any info on him please?