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INFORMATION BUREAU
FOR OBTAINING NEWS OF SICK, WOUNDED AND MISSING SOLDIERS.
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY. N.S.W. DIVISION.
12th September 1916.
Dear Judge Ferguson
In making enquiries about Lieutenant A. Campling of the 20th Battalion, we have just received the following report from the Red Cross in London and thought you would like to see it.
"Lieutenant Campling and some other officers were having a smoke together after lunch in the dining dug-out in the trenches at Bois Grenier. They left this dug-out and went to another. Just as they reached it a shell struck the top, passed in and exploded. Captain Ferguson was killed and Campling was so badly wounded that he died half an hour later, just as he was being taken into the Dressing Station. Witness was present at his burial which took place in the cemetery at Bois Grenier. The bodies of Captain Ferguson and Campling were buried together. Two crosses mark the grave the surface of which is covered with white rubble in which is worked a red cross.
Yours Faithfully
Harry M Stephen
The Hon. Justice Ferguson
Judge's Chambers.
Supreme Court.
Sydney.