Lindsay Stuart MACCALLUM

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MACCALLUM, Lindsay Stuart

Service Number:	10
Enlisted:	21 August 1914, An original of Headquarters
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mittagong, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Ashfield, Ashfield, New South Wales
Schooling:	Mittagong Superior Public School
Occupation:	Mechanic
Died:	Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 24 July 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

21 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 10, 3rd Infantry Battalion, An original of Headquarters
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 10, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 10, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
24 Jul 1916:	Involvement 10, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 10 awm_unit: 3 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Sergeant awm_died_date: 1916-07-24

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Lance-Corporal Lindsay Stuart MacCallum, who died aged 22, was the third son of the Mr. Hector and Mrs. Emma McCallum of Grenfell. He was for a number of years in the employ of as mechanic with Mr. Steve Stringer of Grenfell, and afterwards with Bennett and Wood, Sydney.

Lindsay MacCallum served right through the Gallipoli campaign and was promoted to Corporal soon after the evacuation and then to Lance Sergeant just prior to his death. He was killed by shellfire at Pozieres according to eye witnesses.

Lindsay’s father had died in 1912 and the family seemed to have lived at Grenfell for some time but his mother Emma was living back in Mittagong soon after the war. His older brother 3187 Pte. Hector Archie MacCallum 55th Battalion AIF was 2 years later killed in action 30 September 1918, aged 27.

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