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Military service
Age:
45
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Forestry Corps
Division:
52 District
Birth:
September 16, 1875
Wardsville, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 15, 1916
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
May 6, 1921
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Family. Range 10. South Lot. 14 G 1.
Additional information
Step-son of Martha Campbell. Husband of Irene G. Campbell, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, OBE served with the Sault Ste. Marie Regiment (Militia) from 3 June 1892 to 10 December 1899. He served with the Thessalon Rifle Company (Militia) from 16 December 1899 to 16 April 1901 and with the 97th Algonquin Rifles from 16 April 1901 to 15 November 1913. He was also a member of the 51st Regiment “Soo Rifles” from 15 November 1913 to 15 March 1916.
Additional citations
Medal of the Order of the British Empire, London Gazette # 31097 dated 1 January 1919, British War Medal, Colonial Auxilary Forces Long Service Medal.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Vincent Campbell
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In 1921 Christie Street Hospital in Toronto still had several hundred WWI veterans as patients.
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Vincent Campbell
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Commemorated on:
Page 555 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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