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Frank Banister CAMPBELL

Regimental number113
Place of birthKelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland
SchoolKelvin Grove State School
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationStockman
AddressMead Street, Glen Innes, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation24
Height5' 10.25"
Weight147 lbs
Next of kinMother, Mrs J M Campbell, Mead Street, Glen Innes, New South Wales
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date3 March 1915
Place of enlistmentCharleville, Queensland
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name11th Light Horse Regiment, A Squadron
AWM Embarkation Roll number10/16/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A7 Medic on 2 June 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll11th Light Horse Regiment
FateDied of wounds 20 May 1917
Place of death or woundingGaza, Palestine
Age at death26
Age at death from cemetery records26
Place of burialHaifa War Cemetery (Row A, Grave 73), Palestine
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
8
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Ethel Norris CAMPBELL, Gertrude Street, Highgate Hill, South Brisbane, Queensland, and the late James Mitchell CAMPBELL
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine

Taken on strength, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Gallipoli, 2 October 1915; to hospital, 25 November 1915; returned to duty, 9 December 1915; evacuated Gallipoli and disembarked Alexandria, 26 December 1915.

Rejoined 11th Light Horse Regiment, Heliopolis, 22 February 1916.

Wounded in action at the second Battle of Gaza, 19 April 1917 (gun shot wound, left leg, fractured shinbone); taken prisoner by the Turks; died in the Scottish Mission Hospital, Nazareth, 20 May 1917 (gun shot wound, enteritis, septocaemia).

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, CAMPBELL Frank Banister

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