Studio portrait of 1775 Private (Pte) Roderick Campbell, 60th Battalion, of Warrnambool, Vic. A ...

Accession Number P06998.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 1915 - 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 1775 Private (Pte) Roderick Campbell, 60th Battalion, of Warrnambool, Vic. A dairyman before enlisting on 27 July 1915, Pte Campbell embarked on HMAT Port Lincoln with the 2nd Reinforcements on 4 May 1916. He was transferred to the 58th Battalion on 10 September 1916. He was wounded in action at Bullecourt on 10 May 1917, and admitted to the Third Casualty Clearing Station. He died of his wounds there on 13 May 1917.