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  Alec Campbell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alec William Campbell (26 February 1899 – 16 May 2002) was the final surviving Australian participant in the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I.
Later in life, Campbell was a union organiser in the Launceston and Hobart railway workshops and an organiser with the Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners (now part of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union).
Campbell never understood the intense public attention on his later life and his longevity and was unhappy at times that he was lauded by conservative politicians who ignored his later union activity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alec_Campbell   (535 words)

  
 Alec Campbell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Campbell lied about his age to enlist in the (additional info and facts about Australian Imperial Force) Australian Imperial Force in 1915 and he fought at the Battle of Gallipoli later that year.
Later in life, Campbell was a union activist in the (additional info and facts about Launceston) Launceston and (A port and state capital of Tasmania) Hobart railway workshops and an activist with the Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners (now part of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union).
He was president of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Rail Union between 1939 and 1941 and president of the Launceston Trades and Labor Council between 1939 and 1942.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alec_campbell.htm   (210 words)

  
 State Funeral for Alec Campbell
A State Funeral for Mr Alec Campbell, the last survivor of the Gallipoli campaign, was held in the Cathedral Church of St David, corner of Macquarie and Murray streets, Hobart, on Friday 24 May 2002.
Alec Campbell was buried at Cornelian Bay Cemetery during a private family ceremony.
Alec Campbell was born in 1899 in Launceston, Tasmania, and was working as a clerk with Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Company when he enlisted in June 1915.
www.dva.gov.au /commem/alec_campbell.htm   (1310 words)

  
 ANZAC - The Last Anzac
Alec Campbell has lost one eye, is partially blind in the other and has a serious hearing problem.
Alec does not complain much except when his wife is not with him.
Alec Campbell was as alone as the symbolic tree on Lone Pine.
anzac.homestead.com /campbell.html   (1725 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Obituaries - Alec Campbell: last veteran of disastrous Gallipoli campaign
ALEC Campbell, the last Australian known to have fought in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of the First World War - and possibly the last from any nation - died yesterday.
Campbell was one of the youngest soldiers at Gallipoli, after lying about his age and enlisting when he was just 16.
Campbell was last seen in public three weeks ago when, wheelchair-bound and half-blind, he led an annual 25 April parade to commemorate the anniversary of the battle that has become the day Australia remembers its war dead - Anzac Day.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=532802002   (660 words)

  
 [Deathwatch] Alec Campbell, last Australian Gallipoli veteran, 103
Alec Campbell lied about his age to enlist at age 16 and spent a month fighting in the brutal campaign in Turkey at the end of 1915.
Campbell arrived in Gallipoli in late November 1915, and by Dec. 20 he was gone in the grand evacuation that ended the campaign.
Campbell is survived by his second wife Kath, nine children, and at last count, 33 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2002-May/000133.html   (535 words)

  
 Alec Campbell by Carmel Egan
ALEC Campbell was born during the reign of Queen Victoria, on February 26, 1899, in Launceston.
Alec was only 16 when he argued with his parents to allow him to enrol with the Anzacs.
It was to Canberra that Alec went with his first Kathleen -- they had met in Launceston -- and their two babies.He built workmen's cottages to accommodate the construction workers of old Parliament House ahead of its opening in 1927.
ink.news.com.au /mercury/anzac/aleccampbell2.html   (1058 words)

  
 Last ANZAC - INDEPENDENT ANZAC NETWORK DATABASE - ANZAC History
Campbell was a father and a husband, a jackeroo and a carpenter, a union official, an economist, a railway carriage builder, a yachtsman and a boxer, to name but a few.
Alec was a fresh-faced youth of 16 years and four months when he enlisted in June 1915, one of 324.000 who volunteered to fight overseas.
Alec at the dock, dreading his fate would be the same as her nephew, who had already died in the slaughterhouse that was Gallipoli.
www.anzacday.biz /anzac_history/last_anzac.htm   (2295 words)

  
 biographies: Alec William Cambell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Alec William Campbell was the son of a commercial traveller (salesman) and had a Scottish grandfather who had migrated to Australia.
Alec was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1899.
Alec did his schooling at Scotch Oakburn College in Launceston from 1910-1915 where he was good at Aussie rules footy and cricket.
histclo.hispeed.com /bio/c/bio-cambella.html   (475 words)

  
 Alec William Cambell; the last Anzac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Alec was the son of Marian Thrower and Samuel Campbell and grandson of Donald Campbell, an immigrant from Argyllshire, Scotland.
Alec's admittance to the small Field Ambulance in Hotchkiss Gully, Anzac, would stand as a punctuation mark in the story of his life, for although unsuspected as such at the time, it marked the beginning of the end of his service as a soldier of the Great War.
Despite all this, it is for his special connection with Gallipoli that Alec Campbell will be most remembered, and while it is sometimes stated that he blazed away at the Turks through loop-holes in the fire trenches, all evidence is against this.
www.anzacs.org /campbell.html   (1909 words)

  
 AM Archive - The death of Alec Campbell
ALEC CAMPBELL: It was a lovely place you know if conditions had been better.
ALEC CAMPBELL: The thing that was wrong was the conditions, you know lice and the fleas and the flies and all those things made it intolerable and the poor food and the sickness and the dysentery but the place itself was a beautiful place.
ALEC CAMPBELL: Was all I can remember now, the first fellow that I saw hit, he was on the ship actually getting into the boats and I think that shocked me more than a lot of others that I saw afterwards.
www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s557649.htm   (877 words)

  
 iComics.com
Campbell's storytelling for Alec: How to be an Artist is interesting in that he not only traces his own history, but that of the graphic novel at the same time.
Campbell doesn't romanticize the industry at all; he does an excellent job of showing how success one minute can be snatched away a moment later.
Alec: How to be an Artist is a great introduction to Campbell's works as both writer and artist, and is available from Mars Import.
www.icomics.com /rev_051601_alec.shtml   (524 words)

  
 Alec Campbell, Gallipoli's Last Survivor, Farewelled [May 24, 2002]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Alec Campbell, the last known participant in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I has been farewelled at a State Funeral in St. David's Cathedral in Hobart.
Campbell was 16 years old when he enlisted as Private No. 2731 in the 15th Batallion of the first Australian Infantry Force (AIF) in 1915.
Regardless of one's view of the often simplistic and jingoistic attitudes to the Anzac 'legend', it cannot be doubted that Campbell represented much that is good of a generation that fought in that foreign war: courage, good humour, humility and concern for others.
www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/05/02-05-24a.shtml   (447 words)

  
 Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 7 Hansard (6 June) Page 2082   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MR BERRY (6.50): A lot has been said about Alec Campbell and his involvement in Gallipoli, and I don't need to repeat any of that except to say that for about six weeks Alec was in Gallipoli.
Alec was also an amateur boat builder, a self-taught navigator and a Sydney to Hobart yachtsman during the early years of the race.
Alec became the president of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Railways Union from 1939 to 1941, and of Launceston Trades Hall Council from 1939 to 1942.
www.hansard.act.gov.au /hansard/2002/week07/2082.htm   (553 words)

  
 24 May 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In honouring the life of that boy soldier, Alec Campbell, the reflective silence of his countrymen and women and the gentle stirring of half flown flags can speak more eloquently of the respect we feel and the debt we owe to this grand old man and those he came to represent.
The spirit bequeathed by Alec and his generation though born of war’s adversity, still slumbers within our people, ready to rise and draw new breath when disaster strikes or danger threatens.
Most of all, throughout his life, Alec Campbell was a man committed to the service of others – in his youth on the battlefield, hauling water, step by step, up murderous paths to comrades above.
www.pm.gov.au /news/speeches/2002/speech1665.htm   (801 words)

  
 Alec Campbell, The Last Anzac, Dies, 103 [May 16, 2002]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The passing of Alec Campbell marks an important moment in the history of our nation.
Alec Campbell was the last known survivor of the Gallipoli campaign, not just in Australia but anywhere in the world.
Alec Campbell was typical of a generation of Australians who, through their sacrifice, bravery and decency, created a legacy that has resonated through subsequent decades and generations.
www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/05/02-05-16b.shtml   (264 words)

  
 Melancholy Phlegmatic: The Handprint
Alec Campbell convicted; they said a murderer’d been caught.
Campbell said it was not he, but to his family’s sorrow
Alec Campbell he was sentenced to hang from jailhouse gallows
www.dvol.com /~jessayn/archives/000353.html   (211 words)

  
 Alec Campbell: Last Man Standing » ABC Tasmania
Alec Campbell died in May 2002 at the age of 103.
Alec was the father of nine children, the last of which was born while Alec was in his seventies.
Jonathan said Alec Campbell had a zest for life due to what he saw at Gallipoli.
www.abc.net.au /tasmania/stories/s833005.htm   (212 words)

  
 TIME.com: All Yours in No Easy Steps -- Page 1
Campbell, born in Scotland, lately transplanted to Australia, earned his reputation among the comixcenti in the late 1980s for his semi-autobiographical works (collected last year as "Alec: The King Canute Crowd").
Using this tether Campbell dives into and returns from extended caveats on subjects like the history of the industry during the '80s "boom-years," the difference between craft and art, and the challenges of remaining an Artist in such an historically disposable medium.
Campbell has a sketchy style that captures the essence of a moment through the expression of his line, rather than minute details.
www.time.com /time/sampler/article/0,8599,128668,00.html   (747 words)

  
 SAVANT:: Essential
Alec: The King Canute Crowd is available through Eddie Campbell Comics for US$14.95, and Mr.
Campbell will be publishing Little Italy, Graffiti Kitchen, and The Dance of Lifey Death in a volume this summer to be entitled Alec: Three-Piece Suit.
Ongoing Alec strips-- except now they're about Eddie Campbell directly; I warned you, this stuff is confusing-- are running in the current incarnation of Bacchus, available more or less monthly at your favorite comics emporium.
www.savantmag.com /44/essential.html   (693 words)

  
 Jonathon Delacour: Alec Campbell, RIP
At 11am today, we took time out from the UltraDev class to observe a minute’s silence for Alec Campbell, the last known survivor of the Gallipoli campaign—not just in Australia but anywhere in the world.
Mr Campbell enlisted in June 1915 when he was 16 and died last week in Tasmania at the age of 103.
Especially as we are forced to concede that the society Campbell and his comrades fought so desperately to defend is now a travesty of almost every value they held dear.
weblog.delacour.net /archives/2002/05/alec_campbell_rip.php   (677 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This impressive book by photographer David Coulson and co-author Alec Campbell is a comprehensive study of the rock paintings and engravings of the African continent.
Alec Campbell's African Rock Art: Paintings And Engravings On Stone, superbly and profusely illustrated with more than two hundred examples of David Coulson's color photography, spectacularly and informatively showcases Africa's rock art with examples drawn from the entire continent.
Alec Campbell draws upon his many years of experience as the founder and former director of the "National Museum of Botswana", and is a resident of the area.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0810943638   (744 words)

  
 Sparks
Alec is taken to his chamber to lie down.
Alec had gone to see his sick mother and tried to return to his wife but got back to her after
He is especially good after he is drugged by Frank, however it is difficult to muster sympathy for the character given that everyone else we have ever met in the programme has suffered the same type of tragedy and got on with their lives.
www.survivorstvseries.com /Sparks.htm   (2372 words)

  
 Coigach Music Shop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He is joined on the CD by Alec Finn and Frankie Gavin of DeDananm, Malcolm Jones of Runrig, John Martin of The Tannahill Weavers, The Easy Club and Ossian and Freeland Barbour of The Occasionals and The Wallochmor Ceilidh Band in tumes from Scotland, Norway, America, Austria, Transylvania, the Faeroes and Hawaii.
John Alec himself died just three years ago and his son, Iain, also a singer, grandchild and great-grandchild, soon to be great-grand-children, still live on the peninsula..
Caite Bheil i ann an Albainn, with the voices of Georgina Murray and John Alec Campbell.
members.aol.com /coigich/shop.html   (3436 words)

  
 Eddie Campbell's ALEC - The King Canute Crowd
All the various Alec stories from the 'geezers' era.
They were published in different places and formats, and it is nearly impossible to track down all of them.
Alec McGarry Is A Mammoth In The Ice...
www.weisshahn.de /bacchus/canute.htm   (149 words)

  
 Mimsy Review: Alec Artist
Another in Eddie Campbell’s wonderful series of semi-autobiographical “Alec” books, this one is more autobiographical than semi.
Alec MacGarry is the proverbial lily of the field, never worrying but always provided for--except that he does worry, occasionally.
If you’re an Eddie Campbell fan, or if you’re interested in the recent history of the art in Britain (he calls it “the rise and fall of what became known as the graphic novel”, and that’s pretty close), you’ll love this book.
www.hoboes.com /Mimsy?ART=115   (865 words)

  
 The Last Gallipoli ANZAC -- Constructing a biography of Alec Campbell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He was not the last Australian soldier of World War 1 to die -- there were nine of these men still known to be alive in 2002.
But because Gallipoli is so significant in Australian history and identity, the death of Alec Campbell was a significant event for all Australians.
All that needs to be done is to download the Acrobat™ file, print pages from it as required and distribute them to activity participants.
www.anzacday.org.au /education/activities/alec_campbell   (192 words)

  
 Alec Campbell -- 2005 Government & Health Technologies Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Alec Campbell -- 2005 Government & Health Technologies Forums
Alec is Executive Director of Privacy Policy and Assessment with the Office of the Corporate Chief Information Officer in the Government of Alberta.
Alec has been involved in the administration of freedom of information and privacy legislation since 1993.
gov.wowgao.com /presentation_proposals/pre_show.php?subjectid=367   (312 words)

  
 African Rock Art :: Campbell,Alec :: Abrams
Covering the entire continent, this magnificently illustrated book contains more than 200 full-color photographs of Africa's rock art, together with historical and interpretive analysis.
Coulson and former museum director Alec Campbell scoured the remotest areas of Africa in their efforts to raise public awareness of the variety, importance, and frailty of these extraordinary works, many of which are endangered by erosion, theft, and vandalism.
ALEC CAMPBELL is a member of TARA's executive board, as well as a rock art specialist.
www.abramsbooks.com /index.php/d/1/0810943638   (249 words)

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