CAMPBELL, Alister Colin Muir
| Service Number: | 3025 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 July 1915, Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Omeo, Victoria, Australia, 1 February 1891 |
| Home Town: | Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Geelong College |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Armadale, Victoria, Australia, 1971, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Geelong College WW1 Roll of Honour, Newtown All Saints Church Honour Roll |
Biography
Son of Archibald Lorne CAMPBELL and Esther Annie nee HOLLIS
Husband of Iva Norham CAMPBELL nee SCOTT
“Born in Omeo on 1st February 1891, the son of Archibald Lorne and Esther Annie (Hollis) Campbell of Aphrasia Street Newtown, he was educated at The Geelong College, spending five years in the School Cadets. Later he was in the North Sydney Rifle Club for six months.
He enlisted in the AIF on 2nd July1915, and embarked on HMAT AS Argylishire on 30th September 1915. He was wounded at Mouquet Farm on 14th August 1916, suffering gunshot wounds to the thigh and shoulder in an action which is graphically described by TS White in the unit history, The Fighting Thirteenth.
He was evacuated from Le Havre to England on HS Asturias. He returned to the front, where he was promoted T/Sergeant on 5th November 1918, then returned to Australia embarking on 28th March 1919. He died in 1971.”
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