Walter CAMPBELL

CAMPBELL, Walter

Service Number: 2706
Enlisted: 28 December 1915, Ballarat, Victoria
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
Born: Sebastopol, Victoria, 1874
Home Town: Sebastopol, Ballarat North, Victoria
Schooling: Sebastopol State School No 1167
Occupation: Miner
Died: Illness (pleurisy), Belgium, 13 February 1917
Cemetery: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Plot XI, Row A, Grave 18
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Magpie State School Honor Roll Book, Magpie State School No. 2271 Honour Roll
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World War 1 Service

28 Dec 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2706, Reinforcements WW1, Ballarat, Victoria
29 Mar 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
4 Apr 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 2706, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), Embarked on HMAT 'A14' Euripides from Melbourne
13 Feb 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 2706, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), Died of illness (pleurisy)

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Alexander and Margaret Campbell. 

Walter Campbell (SN 2706) was born in Sebastopol and attended the Sebastopol State School. He was 42 years of age, a miner, and married with 4 children when he enlisted on 28th December 1915, joining the 2nd Tunnelling Company, Australian Mining Corps. He embarked from Melbourne on board the Euripides on 4th April 1916 and was serving in France when he was admitted to 10th Casualty Clearing Station with pneumonia in February 1917. His condition rapidly worsened and he died from pleurisy three days later on the 13th February. He is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Mrs Walter Campbell, of Albert street, Sebastopol, was advised by the Defence Department that her husband, Sap W. Campbell, had been admitted  to the 10th Casualty Clearing Station on 10th February, suffering from pleurisy. On Wednesday she received information that he had succumbed to  his illness, after being three days in the hospital. Sapper Campbell, who left on 4th April, 1916, was a native of Sebastopol, and a member of the  Old Boys' Association, and was highly respected by a large circle of friends. He leaves a widow and family of four children. Recently Mrs Campbell  received a letter from her late husband, written in January, stating that he was then in good health and spirits. He was a brother of Mrs J. W. Raine, of Sebastopol.

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