CAMPBELL, Fordyce Jack Charles
| Service Number: | WX1942 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 March 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 2 |
| Last Unit: | 7th Division Cavalry Regiment |
| Born: | Fremantle, Western Australia, 17 March 1918 |
| Home Town: | Mount Lawley, Vincent, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fitter |
| Died: | Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia, 25 April 1998, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Mar 1940: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, WX1942, 7th Division Cavalry Regiment | |
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| 20 Mar 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, WX1942 | |
| 26 Dec 1940: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, WX1942, 7th Division Cavalry Regiment, ex Sydney Harbour, on board the Queen Mary | |
| 23 Nov 1945: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, WX1942, 7th Division Cavalry Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Ford was the fourth of five children of Charles Vincent Campbell (born 1890 in Clare, South Australia) and Dulcie Ginbey (born 1888 in Broken Hill, NSW). Charles and Dulcie married in Boulder, WA in 1910 and settled in the Goldfields region.
When Ford was 15 years of age, his mother died and his father returned to Kalgoorlie. Ford commenced work as a Fitter in Cannington, WA and enlisted in the Australian Army in March 1940. He served as a WO Class II (Service No: WX1942) with 2/7th Australian Division Cavalry Regiment, which was formed in April 1940. Ford undertook basic training at Cowra with Vickers light tanks and machine gun carriers, and in February 1940 arrived in Egypt. Following action at Suez and Palestine, the Regiment was sent to Cyprus and Syria before returning to Australia at the beginning of 1942. In September 1942, Ford was in Papua New Guinea with the Regiment - Port Moresby and Sanananda. The Regiment returned to Australia in 1943, and in April became the 2/7th Cavalry Regiment - administrative HQ for Commando Squadrons. The Regiment's last action was in July 1945 at Balikapan in Borneo. Ford was Discharged in November 1945.
Brothers Ivan Harold (Service No: 415506); and Colin Royal (Service No:31335); and Brother -in-Law George Watson Blackwood (Service No: WX3433) also served in WWII.
Ford married Ruth Inglis (born 1918 in Katanning, WA) in 1941 in Bunbury, WA. Folllowing his Discharge, ford and Ruth settled in Bunbury where Ford was a Fitter with the WA Government Railways. Ruth died in 1994 and Ford in 1998