Denis E Chapman | ParaData

Sgt Denis Ernest Chapman served with 3rd King's Own Hussars, part of 6th Airborne Division, in Palestine and qualified as a military parachutist on course 218, which ran at RAF Upper Heyford in April 1947.

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1944
3rd, The King's Own Hussars (Sergeant)

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Palestine

Arab intransigence over the surge of Jewish immigration that followed the Holocaust in Europe led to the forming of extreme dissident Zionist groups such as IZL (Irgun Zwai Leumi) and the Stern Gang, all seeking to promote their aims through violence.

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Suspects awaiting interrogation by Intelligence Officers, Tel Aviv, 30 July 1946.

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3rd King's Own Hussars armoured car crew stop for break, Palestine, c1946-47.

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Sgt Denis Chapman looks out from a Staghound at the Bridge of Acorn, Megiddo, Palestine, 1947.

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The King David Hotel after the Hagana bomb explosion, 1946.

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Two NCOs of 3rd King's Own Hussars at Ramat Gan crossroads, Palestine, September 1946.

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