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CAMPBELL, Herbert Malcolm
(Service number 6/425)

Private H M Campbell — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Geraldine Men for Europe — Pictured are (from left to right) BACK ROW: Benjamin Edwards, James Patrick, Hamilton Elmslie, Anthony Johnstone, Herbert Millar, Edward Templer, Herbert Campbell; FRONT ROW: David Devon, Thomas Squire, John Howard, John Kennedy (Mayor), Leonard Mason, William Davis, William Scott (South Canterbury Museum 1574)

Herbert Campbell — A short biography presented in an interactive within the exhibition "1914: South Canterbury on the Eve of War", exhibited from 5 August to 23 November (South Canterbury Museum )

Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion — "Erected by the members in memory of their comrades who fell in the Great War 1914-1918” (Courtesy of K Close and P McAuliffe )

Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion - plaque — The plaque above the building’s door reads: “Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion. Erected by the members in memory of their comrades who fell in the Great War 1914-1918”.
The building was opened on 22 October 1923. It still stands today (2019) in the Geraldine Domain. (Courtesy of K Close and P McAuliffe )

Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion plaque - restored in 2023 — (Courtesy of K Close )

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	17/05/1891	Place of Birth	Roxburgh

Enlistment Information

Date	13 August 1914	Age	23
Address at Enlistment	Geraldine
Occupation	Gardener
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	M. Campbell (father), Geraldine
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	25 April 1915	Age	24
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices	Otago Daily Times, Issue 16425, 2 July 1915, Page 4
Memorial or Cemetery	Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey
Memorial Reference	74
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial; Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion plaque

Biographical Notes

Son of Malcolm and Margaret nee McAra Campbell of Geraldine.

Herbert attended Roxburgh School in 1896 and then Forbury School in 1904, leaving in Jun 1904 to move to Timaru. Herbert worked in his father's orchard in Geraldine.

Herbert was killed on 25 April in the Gallipoli landing, but initially reported missing. He death was confirmed on 23 May 1914. The North Otago Times, Volume CI, Issue 13280, 29 May 1915, Page 6 records: “Private Herbert Malcolm (Campbell (Canterbury Battalion) was born in Roxburgh on March 15th 1891. He held two championship medals for shooting, one for Timaru Main School and one as champion of South Canterbury when a school cadet,he worked with his father as a fruit-grower in Geraldine, his father following that calling at Roxburgh and at Geraldine. Both parents are natives of Dunedin, He was well and favourably known in sporting circles, at some time being a member of the Geraldine Bowling, Hockey, and Football Clubs. He was also well known to road racing cyclists in Canterbury. He was three years in the local Volunteer Corps, three years a Territorial, and when he enlisted was on the Reserve Corps. He has always taken a keen interest in soldiering.”

Sources

Cenotaph Nov 2013; Paperspast http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ ; Births, Deaths & Marriages online www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz

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Researched and Written by

Carol Bell; Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

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