Born: 14 April 1889
Died: 9 September 1971
Daughter of Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Andrew Chapman, of Westray, Arbutus Street, Mosman. The Reverend Chapman (born 1845, Dundee, Scotland) and his second wife Elizabeth Rendall Logie (born 1852, Westray, Orkney Islands) had migrated to Australia in 1890, settling in Queensland.
Minnie Chapman trained at Brisbane Hospital. She embarked on the Orontes on 14 April 1915, and Dr Kirsty Harris' database lists her service with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve as follows:
AAH Harefield England Jun 15; to France 3BGH Jun 15; 8 Amb Train Dec 15; 8BSH Apr 16; ambulance train c. Jan 17; RTA on leave Jan 17; 4BGH Oct 17 France; 46CCS Jan 18; 33CCS; 57CCS; 11CCS; 42CCS; 30CCS Sep 18; Belgium; Kitchener's Hosp Brighton May 19; RTA Orvieto 6/3/20.
Her half-sister Mary Sang Chapman also served with the QAIMNSR and won the Royal Red Cross.
Minnie Chapman married Lieutenant Roy Wilkinson of Albion in 1921.
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