Born: 21 April 1901
Died: 28 April 1931
Enlisted in the AIF together with his brother David Emanuel Campbell on 17 September 1917 at the age of 16 years and five months by overstating his age by two years. He joined the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment in May 1918. He contracted malaria in July 1918 and was hospitalised several times prior to his departure and during the voyage from Egypt from where he departed in February 1919 to return to Australian.
Following his return on 24 March 1919 he continued to receive treatment for malaria. Prior to his discharge from the AIF, in July 1919, he was assessed by a Medical Board as being capable of only 10% of his "full (work) capacity". Although it was considered his recovery would be "slow", he was regarded as only being temporarily disabled by his illness.
He married Rose Josephine Warren on 16 December 1919. They divorced in May 1929 on the grounds of his desertion of his wife and two children.
He died at Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards on 28 April 1931, a week after his 30th birthday. The coroner's findings on his cause of death were:
Pulmonary embolism supervening after injuries self-inflicted while temporarily mentally deranged. [New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Coroners' Inquests, 1821-1937 (Ancestry.com)]
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