During World War I, he served on the Western Front as an engineer, rising to the rank of lieutenant (he was commissioned in the field at Ypres[2]).
[6] He lectured at the University of Melbourne and established his own consultancy, doing mining engineering work in Central Australia, Queensland and New Guinea.
He joined the boards of various BHP-controlled companies and directed the expansion of WMC's operations in Western Australia and Victoria.
The citation read "For eminent achievement and merit of the highest degree in the development of the Australian mining industry".
In 1979 the WMC-Lindesay Clark Trust Fund was established to benefit communities in areas where WMC operates.
Sir Lindesay Clark died on 3 January 1986 in Kooyong, four days before his 90th birthday, survived by his wife and their two daughters and son.
[15] The giant "Lindesay Clark Window" is on the western wall of the Robert Blackwood Hall at Monash University.