CAMPBELL, Frederick Aedy
| Service Number: | 6476 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 July 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Footscray State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Joiner |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 4 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Aeroplane Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium Plot III, Row C, Grave No. 41. IN MEMORY OF THE DEARLY LOVED SON OF MR. & MRS. CAMPBELL OF FOOTSCRAY |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Footscray Presbyterian Church Honour Board, Holbrook War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6476, 5th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6476, 5th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6476, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 6476, 5th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 6476 awm_unit: 5 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Frederick Aedy Campbell was one of three sons of John and Maria Campbell of Footscray, Victoria who served with the AIF during WW1. Only one returned to Australia.
Frederick was known as ‘Dick’ to his family and friends. He was a well-known footballer with the Riverside Club and worked as a joiner at Bowen and Connolly's, North Melbourne. He had attended Footscray State School and was a mate of, and enlisted with, Andy Almond. Almond died of wounds a fortnight before Campbell was killed.
Frederick’s older brother, 175 Pte. Hugh Campbell 14th Battalion AIF, was an original Anzac and had gone right through the Gallipoli campaign. He was killed in action at Pozieres on 12 August 1916, aged 28.
Another brother, 2189 Pte Duncan William Allan Campbell 37th Battalion, was returned to Australia suffering from shell shock on 19 October 1917, two weeks after Frederick’s death.
Frederick was said by most witnesses to have been killed by a piece shrapnel near Passchendaele, Belgium on 4 October 1917. He was posthumously awarded a Military Medal for his work only a fortnight before, “During the operations East of Ypres, 20th/21st September 1917 Private CAMPBELL volunteered for Stretcher work at a time when severe casualties were being sustained. He went back to the rear with as many as 25 cases and spared himself in no way in his endeavours to render assistance to his wounded comrades. The value of this work cannot be overestimated.”
Another brother, 2189 Pte Duncan William Allan Campbell 37th Battalion, was returned to Australia suffering from shell shock on 19 October 1917.