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Alec Campbell

Alec William Campbell (26 February 1899 - 16 May 2002) was the final surviving Australian participant in the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. His death symbolised broke the last living link of Australians with the Gallipoli story.

Campbell lied about his age to enlist in the 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 Launceston and 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. He completed an economics degree at the age of 50. A lover of sailing, he built boats and competed in six Sydney to Hobart yacht races.

Upon his death, he received a state funeral at St David's Anglican Cathedral in Hobart.

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