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                                                 CITATION

From Lt. Col. Hurry

Formerly C.O. of 38th Batt. A.I.F.

High Street,

Kyneton.

November 21st, 1921.

To all whom it may concern.

I have known Lindsay Tasman Ride during his service in 38th Battalion A.I.F. from February to August 1918 at which time I was either second in Command or C.O. of the Battalion. I attach a memo of his military history taken from his pay book and the Battalion and other military records.

On his joining the Battalion in February 1918 he was soon promoted to be a scout and did good work in a particularly nasty spin in the trenches before Warneton where we were subjected to almost continuous field-gun minenwerfen and M.G. fire for eight days.

A few weeks later in the rush to the Somme in March we met the Germans on the Ancre and he was one of four scouts who reconnoitered Marrett Wood and paved the way to its occupation by the Battalion forestalling the enemy in this important position by only about half an hour. The Wood was then subjected to heavy enemy fire of all sorts during which Ride received a gunshot wound in the leg and was subsequently hit by shrapnel while being carried out.

Re-joining in August he was just in time to take part in the fighting of the hundred days on the Somme and was in charge of a rifle section in the actions at Sailly Laurette and Bray in the latter of which he sustained a fractured pelvis through shell fire and was hardly out of hospital again when the Armistice put an end to hostilities.

During his service with the Battalion his record was consistently good and I have no doubt that had he remained unwounded he would have risen to commissioned rank.

Since his return to Australia I have lost sight of him but from what I know of his service with the Battalion and from what I have heard since I have no hesitation in recommending him as a man of sterling courage and resource and of the highest character.

(signed) H. Hurry.

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Military Record of No. 3479.

Lindsay Tasman Ride, born 10/10/98.

1917

Feby. 10. Enlisted and sent to Royal Park Camp.

Detailed to Artillery and sent to Maribyrnong Camp.

Volunteered for Infantry and sent Broadmeadows Camp N.C.O. School. Passed for Corporal.

July 16. Embarked at Sydney per HMAT Port Melbourne.

Hurdcott Camp England.

Group Gas School. Passed Very good 92% (also highest marks obtained).

Decr. Kandahar Officers School. Passed very good 92% (also highest marks obtained).

1918

Jany. Crossed to France.

Feby. 7. Joined 38th Battalion at Red Lodge in Armentieres Sector.

Mch. 28. Wounded at Mericourt (Marrett Wood) when the enemy was stopped on the Ancre.

Aug. 13. Rejoined ex hospital.

24. Wounded at Bray at beginning of "the hundred days".

(signed) H. Hurry, Lt. Col.

ex C.O. 38th Batt. A.I.F.

(Illustration: Marett Wood, 7 April 1918, dugouts of 37th Battalion. The German line was 800 yards forward of this point).