Charles Campbell
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CAMPBELL, Charles
Service no: 3482 [1]
Place of birth: Orange, 1895
Address: Canobolas Post Office, Orange, later Pinnacle Road, Canobolas
Occupation: Farmer
Next of kin: Agnes Campbell (mother), Canobolas Post Office, Orange
Date of enlistment: 8 September 1915
Place of enlistment: Holsworthy
Age at enlistment: 21
Fate: Embarked HMAT A35 Berrima, Sydney 17 December 1915. Joined 54th Battalion, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt, 16 February 1916. Embarked HT Caledonian, Alexandria, to join British Expeditionary Force, 19 June 1916. Disembarked Marseilles, 29 June 1916. Wounded in action France 20 July 1916, suffering a gunshot wound to the scalp and thorax. Admitted to No. 13 General Hospital Boulogne, France, 20 July 1916. Transferred to General Military Hospital Colchester, England, 22 July 1916. Discharged from hospital 29 August 1916. Rejoined unit 26 November 1916. Hospitalised 11 December 1916. Rejoined 54th Battalion 29 December 1916. Hospitalised 28 January 1917. Rejoined unit 30January 1917. Transferred to 5th Australian Division Traffic Control Detachment with rank of Sapper. Hospitalised France 15 March 1918. Rejoined unit 14 April 1918. Returned to Australia 3 June 1919.
Date of death: 20 July 1977
Buried: Orange Cemetery
Born in Orange in 1895, Charles Campbell enlisted at Holsworthy on 8 September 1915. He embarked from Sydney three months later, proceeding to France as a Private in the 19th Battalion, 8th Reinforcements. Private Campbell was wounded in action in France in July 1916, suffering gunshot wounds to the head and chest. He was hospitalised in Boulogne, then transferred to Colchester General Military Hospital at Aldershot in Hampshire. He was discharged in August and rejoined his unit in November.
In January 1917 he was transferred to 5th Australian Division Traffic Control Detachment with rank of Sapper.
Charles Campbell returned to Australia in June 1919. He resumed farming and orcharding on Pinnacle Road with his brothers Vic and Raymond, and in 1924 married Kathleen Mary Fitzgerald.
Leader, 22 November 1916, p. 6.
The Village Blacksmith’s Tree: Canoblas Soldier photographed under it by an ex-Orange Clergyman. [2]
Leader, 13 June 1919, p.8.
Canoblas Heroes [3]