Frederick Spencer Chapman was born in London on May 10, 1907. This article is about the British city. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

His mother, Winifred Ormond, died shortly after his birth and his father, Frank Spencer Chapman, was killed at the battle of the Somme. Freddie (as he was to become known) and his older brother, Robert, were cared for by an elderly clergyman and his wife in the Lake District. See Battle of the Somme (disambiguation) for other battles and meanings Battle of the Somme Conflict First World War Date 1 July 1916 – 18 November 1916 Place Somme, Picardy, France Result Stalemate The 1916 Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War, with... see also Holy Orders The following terms have traditional meanings for the Anglican Church, and possibly beyond: A churchman is in principle a member of a church congregation, in practice someone in holy orders. ...

His early schooling was one of a typical northern upbringing, rugged and hard but honest Sedbergh. He advanced his education at Cambridge, but did not excel in any of his chosen subjects. He did, however, succeed in one of his chosen goals, that of exploration he enjoyed so much. Freddie was the first to cross the Greenland ice-cap and was to further his outward bound activities by climbing in the Himalayas. Sedbergh (pronounced Sedber or even, by the locals, Sebber) is a small town in Cumbria, traditionally part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ...

From this he taught at Gordonstoun School where Prince Philip was one of his pupils Gordonstoun is a famous British public school. ... HRH The Duke of Edinburgh His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (Philip Mountbatten), styled HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (born June 10, 1921), is the consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ...

His love of the outdoor life and adventure lead to him being chosen for a mission in Australia. That mission was to train Australian and New Zealand forces in guerrilla warfare and eventually to join what was then Special Training School 101 in Singapore. Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from the Spanish guerrilla meaning little war, and used to describe small combat groups and the individual members of such groups (see Etymology). ...

At the outbreak of war Freddie and his team of resistance fighters went into action. They were successful in doing damage to as much as they could, eventually going deep into the Malayan jungle.

Throughout the war he remained a thorn in the Japanese side, accounting for no less that seven trains, fifteen bridges and forty motor vehicles and the killing of some hundreds of Japanese in a short period of time. This article is about the edifice (it is mostly an index to articles concerning specific bridge types). ...

He spent most of the rest of the war helping and fighting with Chinese communists, who were waging war with the Japanese as a consequence of the Rape of Nanking. This article is about communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, and as a popular movement. ... The Nanking Massacre (Chinese: 南京大屠杀, pinyin: Nánjīng Dàtúshā; Japanese: 南京大虐殺, Nankin Dai Gyaku-satsu), also known as the Rape of Nanking and sometimes in Japan as the Nanking Incident (南京事件, Nankin Jiken), refers to what many historians recognize as widespread atrocities committed by the Japanese army in and around Nanking...