Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. CAMPBELL "Elderslie" Mundubbera, Qld.

Husband of Winifred Blanche CAMPBELL, Sydney Street, Maryborough, Qld.

The late Mr. Robert Fullerton Campbell, whose death occurred on January 17. in Maryborough, was born at South End, Scotland. He came out to Australia on the steamship Whvpia. and landed at Rockhampton on January 19. 1912. Later he went to Mundubbera and helped to build roads to Gayndah. There was then no rail connection between Gayndah and Mundubbera. In 1927 deceased went to Fraser Island where he was a bullock driver on the back beaches. Later he became an employee of Walkers j Ltd., Maryborough. When the call for war service came, he left Maryborough to do his duty in the A.I.F. and was attached to the 2nd 75th workshops company; He served in the Islands, at Buna and Lae. When peace was declared, deceased returned and resumed work at Walkers. He was well known in the Wide Bay and Burnett districts for his worked amongst cattle and horses, which was his great hobby. At his death his army mate, Port McCotter, came from Clifton to pay his last respects, in company with many others, to a friend whose death they sincerely mourned.