When Eric Harding Chinner was born on 15 January 1894, in Peterborough, South Australia, Australia, his father, Thomas Henry Chinner, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Thyer, was 36. He married Gladys Dunn. He registered for military service in 1914. He died on 19 July 1916, in Fleurbaix, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Fromelles, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
English: shortened form of Challender .
‘A locket, a soldier, and a broken heart …’ It was a difficult decision for Eric Chinner to enlist in 1915. After all, Eric had recently kindled a romance with Gladys Dunn, a fellow clerk he worked …
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