Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 01/11/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 20/11/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Sydney NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 23/03/1894
- Place of Birth
- Sydney NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Woollahra NSW (previously Duntroon ACT)
- Occupation
- Station overseer
- Next of Kin
- Ethel A. Campbell (mother), Woollahra NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 33918
- Final Rank
- Gunner
- Final Unit
- 4 Field Artillery Brigade AIF
Notes
George Campbell was born in Sydney in 1894 but spent his childhood at Duntroon. He arrived in France in November 1917 and served with the 10th Battery, 4th Field Artillery Brigade. He spent three months during 1919 at Woolley & Co. at Bradford to learn about wool classing before returning to Australia and being discharged on 20 November 1919. After the war he leased a soldier settler's block in the Woden Valley known as 'Yarra Glen' which the family held until it was resumed for urban development in the 1960s. He also served in World War 2. George Campbell died in Canberra on 5 January 1971.
Description - height 5 feet 9¾ inches, weight 152 pounds, chest 35-38 inches, medium complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, Church of England, scar on the lower left eye and left side of his back.
Sources
Fionna Douglas, 'Not without my Corsets', 1996
Jean Salisbury, 'Canberra: St. John's Churchyard 1844-1998', Canberra 2000
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Images courtesy of Robert Campbell
George Campbell at Yarra Glen. Image courtesy of Robert Campbell.
George Campbell. Image courtesy of Robert Campbell.