Ray Gillespie CAMPBELL

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CAMPBELL, Ray Gillespie

Service Numbers:	2623, S60025
Enlisted:	21 May 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Boolcunda East, South Australia, 1 April 1893
Home Town:	Quorn, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Schooling:	Boolcunda East Public School
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	20 January 1954, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia
Memorials:	Quorn District Roll of Honor WW1 Board, Quorn Roll of Honor, Quorn and District Roll of Honour WW2

World War 1 Service

21 May 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private
27 Oct 1915:	Involvement Private, 2623, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
27 Oct 1915:	Embarked Private, 2623, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Adelaide

World War 2 Service

20 Apr 1942:	Involvement Private, S60025
20 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
20 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, S60025
8 Jul 1942:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Raid on Celtic Wood

2623 Private Ray Gillespie Campbell a farmer from Quorn, South Australia was wounded at Pozières in July 1916. He was wounded on 9 October 1917 and evacuated to England with shrapnel wounds to his left arm and neck on 12 October 1917.[i]

Returned to Australia in 1919.

[i] National Archives of Australia, B 2455, Campbell Ray Gillispie / 1855469, viewed 3 September 2011.

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