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Spirits of Gallipoli - Ross CHIPPER

Spirits of Gallipoli - Ross CHIPPER
Unit 10th Light Horse Regiment, A Squadron Rank Trooper
Date of Enlistment 4 November 1914 Service no. 68
Date of Death 7 August 1915 Place of Death The Nek - Walker's Ridge
Age 31    
Cemetery Ari Burnu Details E. 15
Epitaph Greater love hath no man
Next of Kin (Mother) CHIPPER S M Address Ross Lin, Mount St., Claremont, WA
Parents Richard William and Sarah Maria Chipper (nee Stirling) Address Ross Lin, Mount St., Claremont, WA
Date of Birth 20 August 1883 Place of birth WA York
General

On 7 August 1915, the 3rd Light Horse Brigade was to make a dismounted charge across the narrow no-man’s-land at The Nek.  This was part of the large scale plan.  Only 150 men could charge the narrow neck of land at a time.

The artillery and the navy concentrated their fire to the front of the light horse.  They were to charge when the shelling stopped.  For some reason however, the shelling stopped 7 minutes before the allocated go time.  The light horse waited in their trenches.  Then finally the order to go was passed along the line of men.

The light horse rushed forward to be met by a gale of flying metal from the Turkish machine guns and rifles directly in front of them.  Within minutes there were only a scattered handful of men left.

Then a second row of light horsemen formed up and charged.  In a moment they too were dying.

A regiment had been lost in just 5 minutes.  No one expected that the attack would continue, however, at 4:45am and 5:15am, members of the 10th Light Horse from Western Australia lined up and charged, facing the same deadly fire.

234 med were killed, 140 were wounded, no advance was made.

Other Sources

     
Spirits of Gallipoli - Photo   Photo Spirits of Gallipoli - Photo   The Western Mail Newspaper, 17 September 1915, page 23 (source 52)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Photo   Photo Spirits of Gallipoli - Photo   The Sunday Times, WA Newspaper, 19 September 1915, page 17 (source 35)
Spirits of Gallipoli - News   Newspaper article Spirits of Gallipoli - News   The Western Mail Newspaper, 3 September 1915, page 31 (source 52)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Headstone   Headstone Spirits of Gallipoli - Headstone   Gallipoli Photographic Expedition, 2009 (source 183)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Australian War Memorial, ACT, Panel 7 (source 14)
 

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