CAMPBELL, Charles Gordon
| Service Number: | 3130 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 57th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | 4 September 1892, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Ballarat High School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | School teacher |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 11 March 1918, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Swan Hill War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 3130, 57th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
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| 16 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 3130, 57th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Andreena Hockley
Private Charles Gordon Campbell, eldest son of Mrs. Campbell, of 106 Wendource-parade, Ballarat, was killed in action on the 11th of March, 1918.
Born 4th September, 1892, he was one of the first students of the Ballarat High School. In 1909, he was junior teacher at Brown Hill and at Macarthur-street, Ballarat; head teacher at Buxton, 1911-15 ; assistant at Pleasant-street, Ballarat, 1916; and head teacher at Tyntynder the same year. He was "a very good teacher, energetic and capable."
Having enlisted on the 29th of September, 1916, he embarked with the 8th Reinforcements to the 57th Battalion on the transport Medic on the 16th of December. He contracted meningitis on the outward voyage, and was in hospital in England till May, 1917.
After a period of training in England, he went to France, and joined his unit on the 7th of November, 1917. He was killed in action four months later.
Source: The Education Department's Record of War Service, Victoria, 1914-1919.
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