I remember visiting an elderly couple, Lyn Chanter and his wife Bell, when I was very young. Lyn knew your great grand father, dad told us.
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The picture is much clearer now thanks to Wodonga Family History Society, which has been helping me on a special project into my paternal family history in Australia.
I have already learned my great great great grandfather arrived in Adelaide in the 1840s and had three wives and more than a dozen children including one who settled in the Granya district and lost a son, Arthur Chanter, in France in July 1916.
Arthur’s cousin JC Chanter, my great grandfather, was in the Australian Light Horse and served at Gallipoli and the Middle East during WWI, earning a Distinguished Service Order for gallantry leading troops across the Jordan River while under heavy Turkish fire.
JC Chanter not only enlisted alongside cousins during the great war, he also rode with his nephew Albert Allen Lynton (Lyn) Chanter in the famous Charge on Beersheba.
The society meets monthly and welcomes new members.
- John Chanter is The Border Mail rural journalist
