A.I.F. SOLDIER’S DEATH
LURCHED ON TO BAYONET SYDNEY, Jan. 31. Private Donald Kirk Campbell, aged 28, of the A.1.F., who died in the Randwick Military Hospital from a bayonet wound, received his injury when he lurched against a sentry’s bayonet. The silence of the military officers caused much speculation about the injury, but it was learned after Campbell’s death that when he returned to Ingleburn camp he was detained on a charge of having been absent without leave. Campbell was placed in the guardhouse where for some time he was heard moving about. .
Then, it is stated, he left the guardhouse, and was called back by a sentry. In returning he lurched, and fell against the sentry’s bayonet. Campbell suffered a deep wound in his chest, and was taken to a hut for first aid treatment before removal to hospital in Sydney. Campbell enlisted in Queensland. He was the second Queenslander to die from a bayonet wound. Qn October 15, Robert Hunter, aged 21, a militiaman of Brisbane, was wounded at Newcastle. He died the same day. The coroner exonerated the sentry.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 20 February 1940, Page 7
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