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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
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
October 10, 1917
Passchendaele, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 24.
Additional information
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.
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Military Cross
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Les six frères Campbell
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Mémorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Coupure de presse
From the Halifax Evening Mail December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Coupure de presse
From the Halifax Evening Mail October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Coupure de presse
From the Halifax Evening Mail October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Coupure de presse
From the Halifax Evening Mail October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Colin Gernon Palmer Campbell
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Lieutenant Colin Gernon Palmer Campbell
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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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