Carlton Wallace Gladstone Stewart (Sam) LINDSAY

LINDSAY, Carlton Wallace Gladstone Stewart

Service Number: 65
Enlisted: 8 February 1916, Sydney, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 9th Machine Gun Company
Born: Navuloa, Fiji, 22 December 1894
Home Town: North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Sydney Church of England Grammar School
Occupation: Bank Clerk
Died: NSW, 14 November 1973, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium
Memorials: Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour Book, East Killara North Sydney Technical High School WW1 Honour Board, Northbridge (Shore) Sydney Church of England Grammar School Memorial Cricket Ground Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

8 Feb 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 65, 9th Machine Gun Company, Sydney, NSW
1 May 1916: Involvement Private, 65, 9th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
1 May 1916: Embarked Private, 65, 9th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Benalla, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

CARLTON GLADSTONE WALLACE STEWART LINDSAY was born on 20th December, 1894, at Navuloa, Fiji, the son of Mr. William Weir Lindsay and Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay. He was educated at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, North Sydney, and entered the service of the Bank on 26th August, 1913, at the Head Office.

Carlton Lindsay enlisted in the A.I.F. on 7th February, 1916, and trained at the Rutherford Camp. He was promoted to corporal on 1st May, 1916, on which date he sailed from Australia in the transport “Benalla.”

He served in France with the 9th Machine Gun Company from 21 st November, 1916, and on 29th December was promoted to sergeant. When machine gun battalions were formed in February, 1918, he continued service in the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion until 4th April, 1919. He was promoted to company quartermaster-sergeant in May, 1917; to second-lieutenant on 3rd November, 1917; and won his lieutenancy in March, 1918.

Carlton Lindsay took part in the Battles of Messines, Passchendaele, Villers-Bretonneux, and various minor operations, and he was in the big advance against the Germans from 8th August, 1918, up to the signing of the Armistice.

Source - Bank of NSW Roll of Honour

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