Harold Chapin

(1886-1915) A promising career in the theatre was cut short when Harold Chapin was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, France, in 1915. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914 and died attempting to save a comrade. Although he was an American born in Brooklyn, he left for England with his mother at an early age and worked for the most part in the British theatre. One of his first parts in Shakespeare was as YoungRead more