George Hendry Campbell

Forenames

George Hendry AWMM

Surname

Campbell AWMM

Service number

WWI 14061 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

28 Dec 1893 Public source

Address before enlistment

Alford Forest Rd
Ashburton

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Next of kin

• Mrs Margaret Campbell (mother), Alford Forest Road, Ashburton, New Zealand AWMM
• Margaret and David moved to Mosgiel, Dunedin. His service medals were sent to them there
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Relationship status

Single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 14061 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 56 or HMNZT 57 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM 5th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, G Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion AWMM

• George Campbell was the son of David and Margaret Campbell, of 4, County Rd., Kaikorai, Dunedin, New Zealand.
  
  Remembered on the Ashburton War Memorial. AWMM
• George was aged 23 when he died. He was born 27 December 1894 in Mosgiel, Dunedin. He moved to Ashburton with his parents and siblings when his father moved to work in the Alford Forest Woollen Mill.
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Death

8 Jun 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France AWMM III. C. 226. AWMM

Memorial name

Ashburton War Memorial, Ashburton, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21891733
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/198667/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/198667
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• HMNZT 42. The blast : the magazine of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. (1917). London: John Long Ltd. ; [On board ship] : [H.M.N.Z.T. No. 42, Ulimaroa]
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  34: 34
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 3: Includes portrait
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.