Dunedin's Buried History
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Dunedin's Buried History |
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CAMPBELL, WILLIAM
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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.
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Monumental Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM MOODY CAMPBELL ACCIDENTALLY KILLED OAMARU RACECOURSE APRIL 8th 1895 AGED 30 YEARS "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN" |
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