Biography

WILLIAM MOODY CAMPBELL

Burial register ID: 7288
Surname: CAMPBELL
First name: WILLIAM
Middle names: MOODY
Gender: Male
Age: 30 Years
Cause of death: Unknown
Burial type:
Date of death: 08-Apr-1895
Date of burial: 10-Apr-1895

Block: 33
Plot: 66A
Inscription:

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

WILLIAM MOODY CAMPBELL

ACCIDENTALLY KILLED

OAMARU RACECOURSE

APRIL 8th 1895

AGED 30 YEARS

“GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN”

Bio contributor:

William Moody Campbell was a jockey who was badly injured at the Oamaru Racecourse and died at the Globe Hotel in Oamaru on 8 April 1895. His body was taken to Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery. His headstone is decorated with a jockey’s cap and whip and the inscription “Gone but not Forgotten”.

The circumstances of the accident and death were fully reported in the “Oamaru Mail” of 10 April 1895.

His half-brother (Charles Campbell, photographer of Campbell Photography) and sister came to NZ with their mother on the ‘Sevilla’ in 1892. Their father, a sea captain had died of yellow fever in Batavia some years before.

There are 1 Interments in this grave:

Surname First names Age Date of death Date of burial
CAMPBELL WILLIAM MOODY 30 Years 08-Apr-1895 10-Apr-1895