Veteran Notes/Bio
2ND Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, Trooper No. 47
Alexander (Alick) Douglas Campbell was born on 6th June 1878, the son of David Henry Campbell and Louise Powell of ‘Turalla’.
Alick Campbell had gone to South Africa with the intention of settling there. He did but not like Cape Town and wanted to go to Kimberley, but found he could not do so unless he joined a regiment for six months.
Goulburn Evening Penny Post. October 1901:
“……While things were going well with the Goulburn boys the death of Alexander Douglas Campbell, of Turalla, Bungendore, was finally confirmed. He had been in South Africa for some time but found the country so disturbed that he had enlisted with Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts. The death had originally been listed as Alexander David Campbell but further inquiries from Australia revealed the correct name. He was killed in action near Heilbron on 3.10.1901. ..”
Later on 13 October 1903 The Queanbeyan Observer stated:
“ …on 13 October 1903 it was reported that a marble tablet had been erected, by his comrades and friends, in the C of E at Bungendore (St Philips) to the memory of Alick Douglas Campbell, who had been mortally wounded on 31 October 1901 at Heilbron, S. Africa….”
Alexander Douglas Campbell is also commemorated on the Queanbeyan Boer War Memorial, one of the five men thus remembered on that Memorial. He is also remembered on the grave of his brother Harry Campbell in the ‘Turalla’ Cemetery.
His name is commemorated on the Memorial in Heilbron Cemetery as a member of Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts. Shore School Sydney has stone plaque for those killed in South Africa listing AD CAMPBELL Kitchener's Fighting Scouts and also his name is on school's external granite memorial.
Note:John Cope "Boer War Men of the Queanbeyan-Braidwood Region:Adventurers or Patriots?"records an Andrew Campbell NSW Mounted Rifles Trooper 1702 who was killed at Magersfontein on 21 May 1901 as being commemorated on the Queanbeyan Boer War Memorial. This records is deemed be be incorrect. Trooper Campbell 1702 was Andrew McKenzie, NOK Wilcannia, NSW. and not "A.D" as recorded on the Queanbeyan Memorial.
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