CAMPBELL, Robert
| Service Number: | 2105 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Pulteney, Thurso, Wick, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom , date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Educated at a small private school at Thurso,Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Occupation: | Certified Master Mariner. Trained as a signaller. |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 6 August 1915, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the LONE PINE MEMORIAL at Panel 22., Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2105, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: '' | |
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| 16 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2105, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Karoola, Sydney | |
| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 2105, 4th Pioneer Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 2105, 4th Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Emigrated to Australia 1910.
Originally on a coasting steamer around Australia and then went to work on the railway construction at Upper Koetong.
He married in Cardiff, South Wales in 1904.
Marriages Sep 1904
Campbell Robert Cardiff 11a 753
Roe Flora Hannah Cardiff 11a 753
He was 42 and the son of Kenneth and Isobel Campbell; husband of Flora Hannah Campbell, [nee Roe] of 9, Trenwith Terrace, St. Ives, Cornwall, England. His war pension was paid to his daughter, Irene Isabella Campbell born 1905 in Cornwall and to his widow, both living in Cornwall and it seems they never settled in Australia.
He is one of two Australian casualties of the Great War remembered on the St Ives war memorial. His date of death is not precisely known but it was between 6th and 9th August 1915.
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