CAMPBELL, Robert Hector
| Service Number: | 3038 |
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| 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's Roll of Honour |
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: '' | |
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| 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.
Submitted 18 May 2023 by John Oakes