Robert Hector CAMPBELL

CAMPBELL, Robert Hector

Service Number: 3038
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 3rd Infantry Battalion
Born: Green Creek, Paterson River, New South Wales, Australia, 1880
Home Town: Stroud Road, Great Lakes, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer with Permanent Way Branch of NSW Railways
Died: Died of wounds, Belgium, 11 October 1917
Cemetery: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Port Macquarie Cenotaph, Stroud St. John the Evangelist Church Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

20 Dec 1915: Involvement Private, 3038, 18th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
20 Dec 1915: Embarked Private, 3038, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney
11 Oct 1917: Involvement Private, 3038, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3038 awm_unit: 3 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-11

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

The printed Honour Roll specifies that Robert H Campbell was a worker in the Permanent Way Branch of the Railways
Campbell had been born about August 1880 at Green Creek on the Paterson River. He enlisted on 18 August 1915 at Warwick Farm and was not married. He left Australia through Sydney on board HMAT ‘Suevic’ on 20 December 1915. On arrival in Egypt he was taken on the strength of the 18th Battalion on 14 February at Tel-el-Kebir, and a month later embarked through Alexandria for Marseilles and the Western Front. In July he was wounded in action with shrapn.el to his left hip. He was evacuated through Calais to Cambridge, England. After recovery from his injuries and further training he re-joined the Battalion in November 1916. In May 1917 he was wounded for a second time with a gunshot wound and a shrapnel wound to his head. He was admitted to a convalescent depot at Etaples and re-joined the unit after only a couple of weeks.
On 4 October 1917, in Belgium, he was wounded for a third time, this time with shrapnel wounds to his back and he succumbed to these injuries on 11 October 1917. He is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Flanders Belgium.


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