Rue-Petillon Cemetery at Fleurbaix has a very special connection to Grafton. Richelle recounted the sad story of 19 year old John Edward Chapman and his tragic death in the Fromelles campaign of 1916. Chapman was a very popular young man and dearly loved by his family, his grandfather was the inaugral mayor of Grafton City. We later had a discussion about the tragedy of war and waste of young lives and the comparisons we could make in our own times.
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