Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

22/10/1917

Date of Discharge

25/04/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

28/09/1897

Place of Birth

Yarralumla ACT

Address (at enlistment)

'Red Hill' via Tumut NSW (previously Yarralumla ACT)

School(s) Attended

King's College, Goulburn NSW

Occupation

Jackeroo

Next of Kin

Frederick Campbell (father), 'Red Hill' via Tumut NSW

Service Number

3710

Final Rank

Trooper

Final Unit

6 Light Horse Regiment AIF

Walter Campbell was the youngest son of Frederick Campbell of Yarralumla, where he grew up, and the brother of Charles Campbell. He was a jackeroo at Red Hill near Tumut when he enlisted in the 6th Light Horse Regiment on 22 October 1917. He served in Palestine from July 1918 and was discharged in Cairo on 25 April 1919. He met up with his mother and sister in Cairo and they travelled to France to visit the grave of his brother, Charles who was killed in action in 1917 while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. After the war he ran a property called The Glen near Brungle NSW and married Muriel Smith on 11 June 1934. He died at Manly Private Hospital in Sydney on 22 October 1972.

Description - height 5 feet 11 inches, weight 154 pounds, chest 33-36½ inches, fresh complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, Church of England.

C.D. Coulthard-Clark (ed.), 'Gables, Ghosts and Governors General', 1988
Queanbeyan Age - 3 January 1913
Sydney Morning Herald - 24 October 1972

The Gundagai Independent - 11 June 1934
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Image courtesy of Robert Campbell

Jillian Kohlhagen, Records of the Walter Campbell Trust