• his birth in London and his father, Frank Spencer Chapman, was killed at the Battle of the Somme; Freddie (or sometimes Freddy as he was to become known)...
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    School (STS 101), was set up by the explorer and mountaineer Freddie Spencer Chapman. Chapman himself led the first reconnaissances and attacks behind Japanese...
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    Utse mountain, five kilometers from the western suburb of Lhasa. Freddie Spencer Chapman reported, after his 1936–37 trip to Tibet, that Drepung was at...
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    miles (116 km). The first attempt at beating the record came from Freddie Spencer Chapman who managed the round in 25 hours. This was believed to be the...
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  • Frederick Chapman (judge) (1849–1936), New Zealand judge Freddie Spencer Chapman (1907–1971), British Army officer Frederick William Chapman (1806–1876)...
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    BSC Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger History and the military Freddie Spencer Chapman, DSO, ED Erasmus Darwin IV Niall Ferguson M. R. D. Foot, CBE, TD...
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    by Freddie Spencer Chapman by both "the Tibetans" and the "Maharajah of Bhutan. Although no refusals are known of earlier climbing requests, Chapman believed...
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    Malaya and Singapore in 1942, a few British officers, such as Freddie Spencer Chapman, eluded capture and escaped into the central Malaysian jungle,...
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    mythical beast that lives in the forest. Broga was mentioned by Freddie Spencer Chapman in his book, The Jungle is Neutral, to be a location where British-backed...
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    including British woman Nona Baker, joined the MPAJA. Others, such as Freddie Spencer Chapman, were Force 136 operatives who sought to begin a sabotage campaign...
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    Japanese. In the course of this activity, he came into contact with Freddie Spencer Chapman, who called him a 'true friend' in his Malayan jungle memoir, 'The...
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  • Frank Chapman (businessman), Chief Executive of BG Group Fred Chapman (baseball) (1916–1997), American baseball player Freddie Spencer Chapman (1907–1971)...
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    location. The expedition also included as ski expert and naturalist Freddie Spencer Chapman, who would later gain fame as a soldier in Japanese-occupied Malaya...
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  • von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (b. 1896) 1971 – Freddie Spencer Chapman, English lieutenant (b. 1907) 1973 – Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian...
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    Francis Burton (1821–1890), soldier, spy, linguist and explorer Freddie Spencer Chapman (1907–1971), known for his exploits in the jungle during the Second...
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    officers are dominated by the works of temporary gentlemen, such as Freddie Spencer Chapman. In Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited the main character...
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    "colony" was phased out. During World War II, the island was where Freddie Spencer Chapman made his submarine getaway during the Japanese occupation of Malaya...
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    school for British Forces children under the headmastership of Freddie Spencer Chapman with his staff at the Ruhleben Barracks site, As such the town...
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    C.B. Armstrong (1934–1938) Ronald F. Currey (Oxon) (1939–1955) Freddie Spencer Chapman (1956–1962) J.L. Cawse (1962–1964) The Revd Canon John Aubrey (1965–1971)...
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  • Iceland. Other sources give an elevation of 2,560 m (8,400 ft). Freddie Spencer Chapman, the surveyor of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition described...
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  • Southeast Greenland Spencer Apollonio, Lands that Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, p. 34 Freddie Spencer Chapman, Northern Lights, p....
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    this expedition: Gino Watkins as leader, John Rymill (surveyor), Freddie Spencer Chapman (ornithologist and photographer) and Quintin Riley (meteorologist)...
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  • Ursula Graham Bower 1947: Charles Pawsey 1948: Henry Holland 1949: Freddie Spencer Chapman 1953: John Hunt, Baron Hunt 1954: Wilfred Thesiger 1960: Violet...
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  • Gave Cain, London, Chatto and Windus, 1933. Arctic exploration Freddie Spencer Chapman Quintin Riley obituary - Cambridge Journals Glasby, Geoff. "Geological...
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  • led by Gino Watkins. Expedition members included John Rymill and Freddie Spencer Chapman but, as a seasoned Army officer, Lindsay brought a disciplined...
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  • covering the climbed summit has reduced its height by about 40 m F. Spencer Chapman, The Ascent of Chomolhari, 1937, HJ 10 (1938) Bradford Washburn The...
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    transferred to the 8th Division. After a chance meeting with Major Freddie Spencer Chapman and Major Mike Calvert in a Melbourne pub, Dexter volunteered for...
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    listed building. The founding Headmaster was Lieutenant Colonel Freddie Spencer Chapman who introduced Kurt Hahn’s Gordonstoun ideals of service, discipline...
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