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Military service
Age:
40
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Birth:
July 8, 1876
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Quebec, Québec
Death:
September 16, 1916
Courcelette, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. N. 4.
Additional information
Son of the Rev. John Campbell and Mrs. M. H. Campbell, of Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel Roland Playfair Campbell
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Photo of Roland Playfair Campbell
From the history of the No. 1 Canadian General Hospital, by Kenneth Cameron, 1938. Copy available at Metro Toronto Reference Library. -
Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Cabana to Campling. Microform Sequence 17; Volume Number 31829_B016726. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 161. Page 925 of 1024 -
Memorial
McGill University, Anatomy and Dentistry building, stained glass window to three McGill doctors -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 63 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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