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Source:# 67 killed in service at Heilbron 5.10.1901, War Memorial Bungendore.
Source:# 107 War Memorial Queanbeyan NSW, died.
Source:# 251 CAMPBELL Alexander David, Bungendore killed in action 3.10.1901.
URL2: CAMPBELL Alick Douglas died 3.10.1901 in South Africa aged 21 buried Turalla NSW.
Source:# 1065 memorialised at Queanbeyan and memorialised rather than buried at Turalla NSW, memorial in Bungendore Church says lost his life serving with Kitchener's Fighting Scouts at Paardekraal Heilbron 3.10.1901.
URL3: killed near Heilbron 4.10.1901.
URL4: 47/36028 CAMPBELL Alex Douglas Trooper 2KFS enlisted Cape Town 29.7.1901 killed 5.10.1901 near Heilbron (WO127).
URL6: Heilbron OFS Cemetery memorial - Tpr. CAMPBELL AD Kitchener's Fighting Scouts 4.10.1901.
Source:# 1090 36028 (also A7 or 47) Tpr. Alex Douglas CAMPBELL enlisted 29.9.1901 killed in action 5.10.1901 near Heilbron (attached comment suggests previously in CinC Bodyguard but not found on roll), on memorial in Heilbron Cemetery under KFS, Shore School Sydney has stone plaque for those killed in South Africa listing AD CAMPBELL Kitchener's Fighting Scouts and also name on school's external granite memorial.
URL8: Mr. Herbert KENDALL, the first boy on the rolls of the [Sydney Church of England Grammar] school, spoke in praise of his three school chums who died fighting in Africa, and to whose memory the library and tablet are erected - namely Captain Jack RUNDLE DSO, of Brabant's Horse and the Sixth Dragoon Guards; Lieutenant Jack MAIR, of the Sixth Mounted Infantry; and Alec CAMPBELL, of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts. The library walls are hung with three big photos, of the soldiers and crowds of rowing, cricket, and football teams, in most of which the brave ones figure.
URL9: Soldiers' Memorial at Queanbeyan unveiled on King's Birthday 1903 by Mrs Granville RYRIE wife of Major Granville RYRIE ... The monument then revealed to view is 12ft high, built of freestone, surmounted by a lamp, the whole standing on an octagonal basement. There are four marble panels on the four faces of the structure. The inscription on the east panel reads Erected in 1903 As a memorial to the brave men of the Queanbeyan district who lost their lives in defence of the Empire during the Great Boer War, 1899-1902. The north panel contains the names of the engagements - Modder River, Bloemfontein, Rensburg, Slingersfontein, Reit, Relief Kimberley, Dransfield, Osfontein, Paardeburg, Klip Drift, Belmont, Graspan. The south panel for the present is left blank, the idea being later on to inscribe the names of all those from the district who participated in the engagements, whilst the remaining panel contains the names of the fallen comrades. IN MEMORIAM. Trooper Alexander D CAMPBELL Trooper Michael J COMMINS Sergeant William BG SMITH Trooper James H SWAN Trooper William F YOUNG. At the base of this another tablet bears the quotation from Horace - Decorum est pro patria mori.
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