Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Three: Private P. J. Campbell, 5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, was was killed in action at the Anzac Cove landings, Gallipoli on 25 April 1915

1914-15 Star (410 Pte. P. J. Campbell, 5/Bn. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (410 Pte. P. J. Campbell, 5-Bn. A.I.F.), together with related Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Patrick Joseph Campbell), extremely fine (4) £400-500

The 5th Battalion was among the first infantry units raised for the Australian Imperial Force during the Great War. In common with the 6th, 7th and 8th Battalions it was recruited from Victoria and, together with these battalions, formed the 2nd Brigade. The Battalion was raised within a fortnight of the declaration of war in August 1914 and embarked just two months later. After a brief stop in Albany, Western Australia, it proceeded to Egypt, arriving on 2 December. It later took part in the ANZAC landing on 25 April 1915, as part of the second wave, when it was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel D. S. Wanliss, the officer who had raised the unit.

Campbell has no known grave and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.