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Accession Number | 1DRL/0200 |
Collection type | Private Record |
Record type | Collection |
Measurement | 1 wallet: 1 cm |
Object type | Letter |
Maker |
Chinner, Eric Harding |
Place made | Australia: South Australia |
Date made | 1915-1916; 1928 |
Access | Open |
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM93 12/11/995 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Copying Provisions | Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required. |
Chinner, Eric Harding (Lieutenant, b.1894 - d.1916)
Collection relating to First World War service of Lieutenant Eric Harding Chinner, 32 Battalion, Duntroon, Egypt, and France, 1915-1916. Collection includes a volume of typed transcript copies of letters written home to family in Australia and condolence letters received by the Chinner Family. Typed carbon copies provided to the Memorial, 1929 by Chinner's family. Location of originals unknown. Letters in the volume cover the period of Chinner's period of training in Australia and Egypt. The letters also cover Chinner's methods of discipline and his developing responsibilities in Egypt and for his short period of engagement in France.
Biographical note: Bank clerk of Peterborough, SA. Born Peterborough 15 January 1894. Lieutenant in the Senior Cadets and later in the Citizen Forces. Trained at Fort Largs, SA; Brighton, SA; Duntroon Military College (April 1915), and Randwick, NSW (machine gun school). Returned to Mitcham, SA, AIF camp to train recruits. Appointed Second Lieutenant 7 October 1915 and posted to 32 Battalion 21 March 1916. Mortally wounded in the Battle of Fromelles and died in German hands of wounds 20 July 1916.
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