LINDLEY, Trevor Mannington
| Service Number: | 2911 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 52nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia, 6 May 1897 |
| Home Town: | Devonport, Devonport, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Mosman, New South Wales, Australia, 29 July 1953, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium, Ryde, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2911, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 27 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2911, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2911, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 1 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 52nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 Apr 1918: | Honoured Military Medal, Villers-Bretonneux |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Trevor Lindley was on the clerical staff of the Union Steamship Company when he enlisted, and was a very prominent and well known member of the Devonport Football Club and Mersey Rowing Club.
Trevor’s older brother, 4519 Gnr. James Reginald Lindley 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, died of illness in Malta on 5 November 1915, after being evacuated from Gallipoli.
Trevor Lindley was awarded a Military Medal for bravery at Villers Bretonneux on Anzac Day 1918, “For conspicuous devotion to duty and gallantry on the night 24th/25th April 1918 during the operations near Villers Bretonneux. His duty as a Linesman was so cheerfully performed during heavy shelling and under constant machine gun fire, that his example had a good moral effect on other signallers. He was wounded on 25th April whilst repairing a broken line in a very exposed position.”
He was twice wounded with the 52nd Battalion on the Western Front and returned to Australia in 1919.