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Military service
Service number:
8423
Age:
18
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
May 10, 1896
Owen Sound, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Carleton Place, Ontario
Death:
April 22, 1915
St. Julien, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of William James Campbell of Carleton Place, Ontario.
Private Campbells' was the first notice of death of a Carleton Place soldier in the First World War to appear in the Carleton Place Herald, printed in the issue of May 11, 1915. He was one of the youngest boys in that group that had marched so confidently off to war on a warm August 1914 afternoon. He died just two weeks short of his nineteenth birthday.
The Town of Carleton Place remembered Private Campbell by naming a street in his honour.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Private William Lockhard Campbell
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Photo of William Lockhard Campbell
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Photo of WILLIAM LOCKHARD CAMPBELL
Larry Gray's 'We Are the Dead' relates details about the lives of Carleton Place's 'Great War' (World War I) victims. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of WILLIAM LOCKHARD CAMPBELL
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Lockhard Campbell
Digital gallery of
Private William Lockhard Campbell
Digital gallery of
Private William Lockhard Campbell
Digital gallery of
Private William Lockhard Campbell
Digital gallery of
Private William Lockhard Campbell
Digital gallery of
Private William Lockhard Campbell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 8 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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