Robert Hungerford Chapman (SN 6770) born at Ballarat, was a 19 year old bank clerk when he enlisted at Ballarat on August 1st 1917. As a reinforcement for the 21st Infantry Battalion he embarked aboard the Nestor on November 21st. He trained in Egypt until he was moved to France in January 1918. A month before the war’s end he was transferred to the 24th Battalion. Illness caused him to have an extended hospital stay before he returned to Australia aboard the Khyber. He disembarked in Sydney on May 16th 1919 and was discharged there on June 9th.

His brother Sidney also served in the AIF and is honoured with a tree in the Avenue.