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From Gallipoli, 1915
 
L/Cpl. Lindsay Lewis Sterling Chipper, 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment, wrote to his mother from Anzac on 30th July 1915. He had recently rejoined his unit after being hospitalised at Lemnos.

“Lemnos is about four hours' boat trip from the Peninsula, so of course is well out of range of the continuous rounds of rifle and shrapnel shells that we get here. There are numerous tent hospitals over there — Australian, New Zealand, English, Indian, and French. They are mostly debility and sickness cases that are sent there. While there I was fortunate enough to get out to and aboard the “Swiftsure” — a British cruiser [sic] — and bought a few tins of condensed milk. It is a great treat. We are now able to have porridge for breakfast made of crushed meal biscuits — not quite as savoury as Quaker Oats, but still a good change from bully beef and biscuits. The islands around these quarters are treeless, and therefore, have a very bare appearance. Lemnos is no exception, although there are a few fertile patches that are cultivated by the Greeks. It is very quaint to see the old-fashioned windmills which they grind their corn with, and their villages are also very antiquated. From where I am sitting now, in my dug-out, I can see the Island of Embros, about ten miles distant. It appears to be a very barren place, with hardly any vegetation at all...

“When leaving Lemnos harbour we passed very close to a British submarine, and the rumour went round that she had been right up to Constantinople, and had done good work
up there. But this place is like the West, one cannot believe half of the rumours he hears.
It looks as though W.A. is going to have a bumper season this year. Let's hope they have many of them. On my way to Lemnos I spent the first night on a hospital ship. My word, it was grand to have a nice clean mattress on the top deck to sleep on, and for breakfast the next morning before leaving we had bread and butter — the first butter I have tasted since leaving Egypt. It was a great treat. All the nurses on this boat were Australian girls they
also looked a treat.” [1]

L/Cpl. Lindsay Lewis Sterling Chipper and his brother Tpr. Ross Richard Vivian Chipper, were killed with the 10th Australian Light Horse at The Nek on 7th August 1915. Both of them are buried in Ari Burnu Cemetery, Anzac; the sons of Richard William and Sarah Maria Chipper, of “Ross Lin,” Mount Street, Claremont, Western Australia.

[1] 'Eastern Districts Chronicle' (York, Western Australia), 10th September 1915.

Lindsay Lewis Stirling CHIPPER was born on 23rd December, 1886 in York, Western Australia

His parents were Richard William CHIPPER and Sarah Maria STIRLING

He enlisted on 9th December, 1914 & embarked with the 10th Light Horse Regiment on the ship HMAT Mashobra from Fremantle, WA on the 8th February, 1915

Lindsay was Killed in Action on 7th August, 1915 at Gallipoli and is buried in Ari Burnu Cemetery, Gallipoli, Row E, grave 19

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial

Medals:  1914-15 Star, British War Medal & Victory Medal

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His brother Ross Richard Vivian CHIPPER ( SN 68) died on the same day at Gallipoli and is buried in the same cemetery as Lindsay (grave 15) - he was also with the 10th Light Horse Regiment