[11] For some years she gave her services to the Children's Home established at Magill by Sister Grace and the Methodist Central Mission in 1914.

[13] In company with W. Taylor and P. Bartels, she arrived in April, and was soon appointed as surgeon with the Cambridge Military Hospital at Aldershot, attending to wounded soldiers.

[15] On 29 May 1918, Chapple was at a WAAC camp near Abbeville during an air raid, when a bomb exploded on a covered trench used by the women as a shelter, killing eight and wounding nine, one mortally.

[19] She stood for election to the Robe ward of the Adelaide City Council in December 1919, as a representative of the Women's Non-Party Political Association, but was narrowly defeated by John Stace Rees.

[20] Amy Louisa Tomkinson had two years earlier stood for the same ward against the same male incumbent with a similar outcome (and both women fared much better than did Frederic Blakeney Shoobridge in 1921 against the same opponent).

Much of her medical work was in obstetrics and gynaecology; she was on occasion called upon as expert witness in cases of death brought about as a result of abortions,[22] usually from peritonitis or septicaemia.

[23] Her last overseas trip was in March 1937, when she sailed for London in the Orion to attend the coronation as an official guest, staying with her brother Harold, and did not return until October.

While in Britain, she attended the Medical Women's International Conference in Edinburgh, at which she was the accredited Australian representative, and the annual meeting of the B.M.A., held in Belfast.

[28] Her name was prominent in the "social pages" of South Australian newspapers, at the racetrack, concerts or at fashionable receptions.

She travelled often, keeping in touch with interstate and overseas members of her fragmented family, and hosting them when they visited Adelaide.