8th Battalion
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Archibald Campbell (SN 334) was born at Wendouree but was farming near Creswick when he enlisted at Ballarat on August 19th 1914. He was 22 years of age. He joined the 8th Battalion and sailed from Melbourne on the Benalla on October 19th. He was wounded at the Gallipoli landing on April 25th 1915, suffering a gunshot wound to his foot. He was evacuated to the 1st Australian General Hospital at Heliopolis in Egypt but was able to rejoin his unit at Gallipoli on June 22nd. He was evacuated again in October, suffering from diphtheria, this time to nearby Mudros. After the Gallipoli campaign he moved to France in March 1916 and was wounded in August 1916 and again in October 1917. His sequence of illness and battle wounds however was not yet complete. On August 9th 1918 he suffered a severe gunshot wound to his left shoulder and was evacuated to the Bethnal Green Military Hospital in England. After the war he was amongst the first to be returned to Australia, disembarking at Melbourne on January 27th 1919. He died in January 1970 at the age of 77.