Murdoch Campbell was working on the Moa Creek irrigation project in Central Otago when he volunteered for the Army. He was twenty years old.
He died on Gallipoli from a bullet wound to his shoulder. Possibly the bullet damaged a lung, possibly he bled to death in a confused situation with no help readily available.
PERSONAL.
The flag was flown half-mast at the Whare Flat School yesterday as a mark of respect to Trooper Murdoch Campbell, who died of wounds at the Dardanelles.Murdoch Campbell, who was educated at Whare Flat School, though hardly 18 years of age, joined the reinforcements of the Otago Mounted Rifles. -Evening Star, 4/9/1915.
Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin. DCC photo.
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