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CAMPBELL, William Gordon
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 2304 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 46th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bradford, Yorkshire, England, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Finley, Berrigan, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 11 April 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Finley War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Wanganella & District War Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 14 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 2304, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
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| 14 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 2304, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne | |
| 11 Apr 1917: | Involvement Private, 2304, 46th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2304 awm_unit: 46th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-04-11 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Mar 1887 Campbell William Gordon Bradford, Y. 9b 131.
He was 30 and the son of Thomas and Edith Campbell.
He is one of two Australian casualties of the Great War commemorated on the Linton- in-Craven war memorials-one on the village green and the other in the Church of St Michael & All Angels Book of Remembrance. The other soldier is Private Philip Gordon Holmes- Service Number 524, also aged 30 and also of the Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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