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Military service
Service number:
16289
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
April 30, 1886
Iona, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
September 5, 1914
Valcartier
Death:
June 3, 1916
Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Hugh D. and Sarah Campbell of Jamesville, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Private Jerry Campbell
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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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 769 of 1024 -
From the book, Catholics of the Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia and the Great War 1914- 1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: PIcture Me
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Submitted with the permission of Bonnie Thornhill, from the book "In the Morning Veterans of Victoria County, Cape Breton. 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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