John Austin CAMPBELL

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CAMPBELL, John Austin

Service Numbers:	VX121434/V53467, VX121434
Enlisted:	10 January 1943, 77 Australian Mobile Search Light Battery RAA
Last Rank:	Lance Bombardier
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Albert Park, Victoria, Australia, 25 September 1918
Home Town:	Mont Albert North, Whitehorse, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Operator
Died:	Blackburn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 March 1986, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

World War 2 Service

10 Jan 1943:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Bombardier, VX121434/V53467, 77 Australian Mobile Search Light Battery RAA
10 Jan 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, VX121434
23 Dec 1944:	Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Bombardier, VX121434/V53467, 77 Australian Mobile Search Light Battery 53rd Composite AA Regiment, 9th Division AIF
23 Dec 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, VX121434

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Jack was the eldest of seven children of John Wallace Campbell (born 1881 in Geelong, Victoria) and Olive Caroline Day (born 1881 in Bairnsdale, Victoria). John and Olive married in 1914 in Melbourne, Victoria, where John was a Salesman.

Jack was working as an Operator in Melbourne, Victoria when he married Dorothy Alma Hill (born 1919 in Fitzroy, Melbourne) in 1942 in Melbourne.

Jack served with the 77th Australian Mobile Searchlight Battery as a Lance Bombardier (Service No:VX121434/V54367) and was Discharged in December 1944. Brother-in-Law John (Jack) Gilson Hill (Service No: VX140379) served in WWII/

Jack and Dorothy settled in Melbourne, where Jack worked as an Operator and Process Worker. He died in 1986 and Dorothy in 2010.

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