Studio portrait of 3058 Sergeant Major (later Sergeant) Henry Hodson Campbell, 8th Battalion, of ...

Accession Number P05248.020
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made 1916
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 3058 Sergeant Major (later Sergeant) Henry Hodson Campbell, 8th Battalion, of Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. A school teacher prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Commonwealth (A73) on 26 November 1915 as Private Campbell of the 24th Battalion. On 28 July 1916, he was killed in action, at Pozieres, France, aged 23. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.