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CAMPBELL, Alexander Douglas
Personal Details
Service Number: | 47/36028 |
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Enlisted: | 29 July 1901, 2nd Kitchener's Fighting Scouts. |
Last Rank: | Trooper |
Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
Born: | Murrumburrah, New South Wales, Australia, 6 June 1878 |
Home Town: | Bungendore, Palerang, New South Wales |
Schooling: | The Shore School in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Killed In Action, Paaderkall, Heilborn, South Africa, 4 October 1901, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
Heilbron Cemetery, Free State, South Africa |
Memorials: | Bungendore St Philip's Anglican Church CAMPBELL Memorial Tablet |
Service History
Boer War Service
29 Jul 1901: | Enlisted British Forces (All Conflicts), Trooper, 47/36028, 2nd Kitchener's Fighting Scouts. | |
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4 Oct 1901: | Discharged British Forces (All Conflicts), Trooper, 47/36028, K.I.A. | |
Date unknown: | Involvement 47/36028 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of David and Louise CAMPBELL of Turalla, NSW
Served with 2nd Kitchener's Fighting Scouts
Particulars to hand of the death of A.D. Campbell (Bungendore), which occurred in South Africa recently. State that while taking part in an engagement, he was shot in the neck by an expansive bullett, dying almost immediately.