ALEXANDER CAMPBELL
Private
100
12th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
who died on
Sunday, 25th April 1915. Age 19.
Additional Information: Son of Mabel Eleanor Miller (formerly Campbell),
of Rosey Rd., Bellevue, Hobart, Tasmania, and the late Colin Campbell. Of
Perth, Tasmania.


Commemorative Information
Cemetery: THE NEK CEMETERY, ANZAC, Turkey
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: A. 13.

Location: The Nek Cemetery is a short distance north of Quinn's Post.
The Nek is the track leading along the narrow spur from Russell's Top to
Baby 700, and the cemetery stands on a ridge with Pope's Hill on the
south-west and Molane's Gully on the north-west.


Historical Information: The Nek was reached and passed by the 12th
Australian Battalion early on the 25th April. It was not held that night.
It was attacked by the New Zealand and Australian Division on the 2nd
May, and by the 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade on the morning of the
7th August, but it was never retaken. The cemetery was made after the
Armistice in what was No Man's Land. There are now over 300, 1914-18 war
casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, the large majority are
unidentified and five soldiers from Australia, for whom there is evidence
of burial in the cemetery, are commemorated by special tablets. The
Cemetery covers an area of 793 square metres.