Studio portrait of 1634 Private (later Bombardier) Stanley Francis Chippindale 12th Light Horse ...

Accession Number P08624.024
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Cumberland
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Parramatta1
Date made 1920
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 1634 Private (later Bombardier) Stanley Francis Chippindale 12th Light Horse Regiment (later 52nd Bty, 25th Bde Australian Field Artillery), of Parramatta, NSW. A draper prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the RMS Moldavia on 2 October 1915. Bdr Chippindale was awarded a DCM for gallantry and was wounded in action on 19 July 1916 at Fleurbaix, France. He died of his wounds on 17 August 1916 in Newcastle-On-Tyne, aged 21. He is buried in Northumberland 4 St Andrew's and Jesmond Cemetery, United Kingdom.