Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

16/10/1914

Date of Discharge

29/12/1919

Place of Enlistment

Albert Park, Victoria

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

29/01/1893

Place of Birth

Yangery, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Ballarat East, Victoria (previously the Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT)

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

John Lindsay (father), Ballarat East, Victoria

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

25 Depot Unit of Supply AIF

Lindsay entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon with the first intake of cadets on 22 June 1911 but he was discharged at the end of 1912 for insufficient progress with his studies. He enlisted as a soldier in May 1914 and was appointed as a Sergeant in the Army Service Corps. Lindsay embarked served on Gallipoli with the Divisional Supply Column until evacuated to Malta in October 1915 with jaundice. Early in 1916 he was promoted to Lieutenant but in France that year he was hospitalised with several illnesses including a serious case of pneumonia. In October 1918 he began training as a pilot but returned to Australia the following year. During World War 2 he served as a Lieutenant with the Bulk Issue Petrol and Oil Depot.

Description - height 5 feet 10¼ inches, weight 154 pounds, chest 34-37 inches, medium complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, Presbyterian.

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)
The Duntroon Society, ‘The First Class’, Newsletter 2/2011