Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 03/11/1914
- Place of Enlistment
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 20/10/1894
- Place of Birth
- Tasmania
- Address (at enlistment)
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
- School(s) Attended
- St. Peter's College (Adelaide)
- Occupation
- Soldier
- Next of Kin
- Son of Marcellin and Annie Chabrel of Glenelg, South Australia. Brother of 307 Victor Chabrel and 754 Edwin Chabrel.
- Burial Place
Unknown
Unit and Rank Details
- Final Rank
- Captain
- Final Unit
- 16 Battalion AIF
Fate
Died (killed in action), Gallipoli, 7 August 1915 aged 20 years
Commemoration
Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 79, Canberra ACT
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT
Notes
Chabrel entered the Royal Military College at Duntroon with the second intake of cadets on 7 March 1912 and was a member of the Honour Guard at the naming ceremony in Canberra on 12 March 1913. His class was graduated early on 2 November 1914 and Chabrel was appointed as a Lieutenant in the 16th Battalion. An older brother, Edwin, served as a Private in the 16th Battalion. The 16th Battalion landed on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and by 3 May they were positioned near Quinns Post and the Bloody Angle when Chabrel was shot in the neck and lower body. He was hospitalised in Egypt but made a quick recovery, returning to Gallipoli in mid June and being promoted to the rank of Captain shortly afterwards. In August 1915 a final attempt was made to capture the heights of Sari Bair with troops from New Zealand, India and the 4th Brigade (which included the 16th Battalion) of the AIF. Chabrel belonged to C Company of the 16th Battalion, leading the attack on Sikhs Hill. As he went to report to his Battalion commanding officer, Chabrel was killed by a shot to the head from a sniper.
Description - height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 158 pounds, chest 34-37 inches.
Sources
AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
Charles Bean, 'Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18' (Vol. II, p.592)
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Observer (Adelaide) - 21 August 1915