Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

From "Chester's" War Service Record:
"23.11.1916. Gun Shot Wound, left arm & left thigh (severe)."

Chester was a sniper in WW2 (family records).

Per Doug Sterling, President of Lorne RSL, (March 2002, telephone interview) - (Post-WW2, Chester was a caretaker at a Queens Park, Lorne):
"Chester was shot by a machine gun, which spun him around, he received seven bullet wounds around his buttock area and (left) arm." Mr Sterling could not recall where Chester's battalion was located when he "copped it," (Chester's words) but he did recall that Chester "was much admired by all those that he came in contact with, for "his guts to endure his lot and to keep going" as he hobbled about on crutches. Chester owned a small "tourer" type car (a Ford "A-Model" [ute type]) and also a house at Lorne (but preferred to live in a caravan with annex at the caravan park). He also enjoyed fishing from the beaches near Lorne.

To help to deal with his ongoing pain, Chester used morphine. He also used an early prototype water bed to sleep on.

Part of my findings: difficult to determine exactly when/where Chester was wounded, but;
C. E. W. Bean records that 58th Btln was involved in the First Battle of the Somme, which commenced early July 1916 and ended mid-late November 1916.
Chester was wounded on "23.11.1916," - so, he was wounded at the very end of the First Battle of the Somme.