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Lieutenant Colin Gernon Palmer Campbell

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Military service

Age: 21
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Division: 94th Brigade
Birth: November 22, 1895 Weymouth, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: January 1, 1914 Nova Scotia
Death: October 10, 1917 Passchendaele, Belgium

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. H. 24.
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Son of George Douglas and Kate Glidden Campbell, of North Weymouth, Nova Scotia. He enlisted at Halifax in August, 1914, and served with the 23rd Battery, Canadian Field Artillery in France until wounded at La Bassee in June, 1915. On discharge from hospital he obtained his Commission in the Imperial Forces. He was one of two brothers who lost their lives in the Great War. Six Campbell brothers served. Brother of Lt. Kenneth Archibald Campbell, killed in action at Vimy Ridge, 23 January 1917.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 576 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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GODEWAERSVELDE BRITISH CEMETERY Nord, France

Godewaersvelde is a village near the Belgian border, about 16 kilometres south-west of Ieper (in Belgium), and is half-way between Poperinge (in Belgium) and Hazebrouck (in France). The GODEWAERSVELDE BRITISH CEMETERY is a little east of the village.

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