Name
Neil Campbell
11 September 1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/04/1918
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Australian Tunnelling Corps
3rd Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
Neil Campbell was born on 11 September 1882 in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of Allan and Florence Campbell. He worked as a Mine Manager and lived in Meekatharra, Western Australia.
He was married to Kathleen Gordon in 1914 and she is given as his next of kin with the address c/o Sir John Gordon, Angas Street, Adelaide, South Australia.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 23 December 1914 as 2nd Lieutenant with the 10th Light Horse Regiment, 'A' Squadron and later transferred to the 3rd Tunnelling Company.
His unit embarked from Freemantle, Western Australia on board HMAT A47 Mashobra on 8 February 1915. He was killed in action on 10 April 1918, age 36.
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Australian National Memorial and Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.
Additional Information
After the war an appeal in Australia raised £22,700, of which £12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and contains an inscription stating that the school was the gift of Victorian schoolchildren, twelve hundred of whose fathers are buried in the Villers-Bretonneux cemetery, with the names of many more recorded on the Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux is now twinned with Robinvale, Victoria, which has in its main square a memorial to the links between the two towns. (CWGC)
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
aif.adfa.edu.au
