Studio portrait of 3130 Private Charles Gordon Campbell, 57th Battalion, of Ballarat, Victoria. ...

Accession Number P05248.019
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made circ 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 3130 Private Charles Gordon Campbell, 57th Battalion, of Ballarat, Victoria. A school teacher prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Medic (A7) on 16 December 1916. On 11 March 1918, he was killed in action, at Wulverghem, south-east of Messines, France, aged 25. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.