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Revision as of 17:10, 13 August 2017
Contents
Background
John McFie Campbell was from the West Indies.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
A juror at the James Scobie Inquest
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.
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