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+ | [[File:Page 3-Harley.JPG|500px|thumb|right|''Bendigo Goldfields Petition Cover,'' August 1853 [detail]. State Library of Victoria (MS 12440)]] | ||
[[File:Carboni WEP page27-wiki.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|William E. Pidgeon (WEP), Illustration from ''The Eureka Stockade'' by Raffaello Carboni, Sunnybrook Press, 1942, offset print. <br>Art Gallery of Ballarat, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Billings, 1993 Conserved with a generous donation from the Chisholm family, 2014. <br>William E. Pidgeon artwork is reproduced with the permission of Peter Pidgeon]] | [[File:Carboni WEP page27-wiki.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|William E. Pidgeon (WEP), Illustration from ''The Eureka Stockade'' by Raffaello Carboni, Sunnybrook Press, 1942, offset print. <br>Art Gallery of Ballarat, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Billings, 1993 Conserved with a generous donation from the Chisholm family, 2014. <br>William E. Pidgeon artwork is reproduced with the permission of Peter Pidgeon]] | ||
[[File:Carboni WEP page84-wiki.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|William E. Pidgeon (WEP), Illustration from ''The Eureka Stockade'' by Raffaello Carboni, Sunnybrook Press, 1942, offset print. <br>Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased 1994. <br>William E. Pidgeon artwork is reproduced with the permission of Peter Pidgeon]] | [[File:Carboni WEP page84-wiki.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|William E. Pidgeon (WEP), Illustration from ''The Eureka Stockade'' by Raffaello Carboni, Sunnybrook Press, 1942, offset print. <br>Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased 1994. <br>William E. Pidgeon artwork is reproduced with the permission of Peter Pidgeon]] | ||
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==Goldfields Involvement, 1854== | ==Goldfields Involvement, 1854== | ||
− | A juror at the [[James Scobie]] Inquest | + | A juror at the [[James Scobie]] Inquest. He was possibly the same person who signed the 1863 Goldfields petition. |
Campbell was inside the [[Eureka Stockade]]. He had a pistol and rifle and fired at soldiers around ten yards from the Stockade.<ref>Blake, Gregory, ''To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart'', Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.173.</ref> | Campbell was inside the [[Eureka Stockade]]. He had a pistol and rifle and fired at soldiers around ten yards from the Stockade.<ref>Blake, Gregory, ''To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart'', Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.173.</ref> | ||
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Contents
Background
John McFie Campbell was from the West Indies.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
A juror at the James Scobie Inquest. He was possibly the same person who signed the 1863 Goldfields petition.
Campbell was inside the Eureka Stockade. He had a pistol and rifle and fired at soldiers around ten yards from the Stockade.[2]
Campbell was a witness examined during the report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the riot at Ballarat, and the burning of James Bentley's Eureka Hotel. [3]
According to his signature on the Benden Hassell Petition he was an agent and correspondent for the Age newspaper.
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Blake, Gregory, To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart, Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.173.
- ↑ Blake, Gregory, To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart, Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.173.
- ↑ Report of the Board appointed to Enquire into Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbance at Ballarat, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 21 November 1854.