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Military service
Age:
22
Rank:
Third Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Tagona (Toronto, Ontario) (128188)
Birth:
Glasgow, Scotland
Death:
May 16, 1918
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Son of John Campbell and Helen Christie, of Glasgow, Scotland.
On May 15, 1918, Tagona was on route from Bilbao, Spain, to Glasgow, Scotland, when she was torpedoed 5 miles (8 km) west-southwest of Trevose Head, England, by U-55. She sank in the Celtic Sea with eight crew members, position 50°29'N/05°07'W.
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Third Engineer John Campbell
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Third Engineer John Campbell
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Commemorated on:
Page 17 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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