CAMERON, Campbell Duncan
| Service Number: | 3247 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Camperdown, Victoria, Australia, 25 March 1889 |
| Home Town: | Collingwood, Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Baker |
| Died: | Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 3 October 1968, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mildura (Nichols Point) Public Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3247, 5th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3247, 5th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3247, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 25 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3247, 5th Infantry Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles | |
| 25 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3247, 5th Infantry Battalion, WiA France (Pozieres) - GSW right chest severe – evacuated to King George Hospital London | |
| 14 Jan 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3247, 5th Infantry Battalion, embarked Southampton for Melbourne on board HT Kanowna | |
| 3 Jun 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3247, 5th Infantry Battalion, Medically Unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sergeant Campbell Duncan Cameron (Service No:3247) enlisted in the AIF on 6 July 1915 as a Private and was attached to 5th Infantry Battalion on 11 October 1915 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Egypt. Promoted to Sergeant on 13 March 1916, he was hospitalised in Serapeum and Cairo with Mumps and Dengue Fever, embarking from Alexandria for Marseilles on 25 March 1916. Sergeant Cameron was WiA (Pozieres) on 25 July 1916 - GSW right chest, severe - and evacuated to King George Hospital in London. Sgt Cameron embarked from Southampton for Melbourne on 14 January 1917 and was attached to 5th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 3 June 1917 (medically unfit).
Campbell was born in Camperdown, Victoria in 1889, youngest son of Peter Gordon Cameron (b1857 in Renfrewshire, Scotland) and Catherine McKinnon (b1861 in Hepburn, Victoria). Peter (an Apprentice Cooper in Scotland) and Catherine married in 1884 in Ballarat, Victoria and lived in Daylesford and Camperdown.
Campbell served two years in the Senior Cadets and worked as a Baker in Melbourne, where in 1914 he married Amy Louisa Winifred Franklin (b1890 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Amy was a Dressmaker in Melbourne. Following his Discharge from the Army, Campbell and Amy lived in Melbourne and Daylesford (Macedon Ranges), where Campbell was a Baker and Confectioner. Following Amy's death in 1926, Cameron remarried in Melbourne in 1929 to Doris Ivy May Carlton (b1901 at Mt Egerton, Victoria) - Doris was working as a Waitress in Melbourne. Campbell and Doris settled in Mildura, where Campbell was a Horticulturalist and Businessman, and in 1938 was elected Councillor for the City of Mildura. Doris died in 1943 and Campbell in 1968.