{"id":1793,"date":"2020-04-22T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?page_id=1793"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T00:33:25","slug":"andrew-lonie-christie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?page_id=1793","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Lonie Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Text and Image: Sandra Kearney<\/em>
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Anzac Day 2020 will be a different experience for all of us. We will not rise before Dawn to make our way to the local war memorial. There to wait silently with our community in remembrance of all those who have served our country in time of peril.  We are asked by our local RSL to pause by the memorial to reflect on their sacrifice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Lonie Christie – 41 Corporal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 feet 9 inches, 166 pounds, 34-inch chest, blue eyes, dark hair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corporal Andrew Christie


Photograph, nd, SRSA\/GRS26\/5\/4\/1252\u00a0<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When Andrew Lonie Christie enlisted on 4 February 1915, he was a month away from his 22nd birthday. He resided at 7 Walter Street, Hyde Park, Adelaide with his mother. Andrew was placed in the 3rd\/27th Infantry Battalion\/B Company. \u00a0He arrived in France in March and was promoted to Corporal.\u00a0 After returning from leave in England he rejoined the battle and was wounded in the thigh in August.\u00a0 He was hospitalised in Boulogne then England and returned in October to the battlefield.\u00a0\u00a0 He was wounded again at P\u00e9ronne, France in August 1918, this time more severely, leaving him permanently incapacitated with a deformity in his shoulder and restricted elbow and wrist movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\nreturned to Australia in February 1919 and was discharged from the AIF on 20\nDecember 1920 with an address at 83 Park Street, Wayville. His discharge date\nwas later than most as he returned to Australia medically unfit due to the\ngunshot wound, he had sustained.  Upon\nhis return, he underwent treatment as an out-patient at No. 7 Australia General\nHospital, Keswick. He had two brothers, William and Thomas, who also served in\nthe war and returned home safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\nthis injury entitled Christie to a war pension for the rest of his life, he was\nnot a man to be hindered by his disability. In October 1919, while undergoing\nmedical treatment in Adelaide at the Repatriation Hospital, he married Jessie\nSara Deacon and applied to the City of Unley Repatriation of Soldiers Committee\nwho bid on his behalf to the Department of Repatriation for a loan of \u00a335 to\nenable him to buy furniture for their home.[1]<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christie,\noriginally from Dumfriesshires, Fifeshire, Scotland, was a blacksmith and\nmechanic before his enlistment in the AIF. Post-war, he applied for evening\nclasses in telephone fitting at the School of Mines and Industries at that time\nlocated in the Exhibition Building on North Terrace.[2]<\/a> He\nthought this \u201cwould be a good preparatory course for the Electrical Engineering\u201d.[3]<\/a> In\n1920, following a job application received from Christie, the firm Ellis and\nClark Electrical Engineers of Franklin Street confirmed they would have a\nposition available for Christie upon completion of his studies. In the\nfollowing year, the Department of Repatriation interviewed the manager of Ellis\nClark Electrical Engineers as Christie\u2019s studies ended, however, the firm had\ntheir full number of trainees in proportion to Journey men employed and were\nunable to offer him employment.[4]<\/a> He\nwas then accepted into the engineering course and was successful in his claims\nfor assistance with fees and books for his studies.3<\/sup>  In February 1922, he was employed as an\nElectrical Mechanic, earning \u00a34 2\/4\u00bd per week, at the Postmaster General\u2019s\nDepartment in Adelaide and continued with his evening studies in engineering.  There is no further information in Christies\nfile to suggest he worked anywhere else until his retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\nearly 1960s, Christie suffered increased pain in his shoulder and left arm and\nunderwent another major operation in 1966. During this period, he also put in a\nrequest for assistance to purchase a motor car under repatriation sale tax exemptions and was successful. He and his\nfamily lived at Tutt Avenue, Kingwood before moving to Pomona Road, Stirling\nwhere he remained until he was widowed in 1978. \nChristie then moved to Leslie Avenue, Blair Athol to be close to one of\nhis two daughters. Christie moved next door to this daughter and on occasion\nused an intercom system between both houses. Another daughter lived in the\nAdelaide Hills, and a son resided on Kangaroo Island.   He\nremained independent as he had been all his life until his health declined in\nthe late 1970s.  He then researched his\nliving options and chose to stay at Resthaven Hostel for veterans at Bellevue\nHeights.  He passed away at the\nRepatriation General Hospital, Daw Park in early January 1982. 
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[1]<\/a> Andrew Lonie Christie, Service\nNo. 41, Repatriation File Series M11179\/ 31882103, National Archives of\nAustralia (NAA), Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> The University of Adelaide,\nSchool of Mines and Industries, accessed on 21 January 2019,\nhttps:\/\/www.adelaide.edu.au\/records\/archives\/mines\/ 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> \u2018Letter from Andrew\nChristie to the Department of Repatriation in 1922,\u2019 Andrew Lonie Christie, Service No. 41,\nRepatriation File Series M11179\/ 31882103, National Archives of Australia\n(NAA), Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> Andrew Lonie Christie, Service\nNo. 41, Repatriation File Series M11179\/ 31882103, National Archives of\nAustralia (NAA), Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have stories or memories of Andrew Christie or other service-people associated with the Adelaide Hills? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact us at mldhsgateways@mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au<\/a> or drop into the History Centre at the Coventry Library, 63 Mount Barker Road, Stirling.
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