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Military service
Service number:
77475
Age:
23
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Division:
B Company 2nd Battalion
Birth:
February 19, 1893
Terravallur, India
Enlistment:
January 1, 1914
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
July 1, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Robert Lewis and Alice Elizabeth Campbell, of Bromley, Kent, England. Educated at Berkhamsted School, Herts, England and University of Toronto.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Robert Alexander Rankine Campbell
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of Robert Alexander Rankine Campbell
Torontonensis 1913 (University of Toronto Year Book), pg. 308. Caption: TRINITY HARRIER TEAMS (Inter-Faculty Champions - 1st and 2nd in Brotherton Cup Race.) -
Photo of Robert Campbell
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Memorial
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Inscription
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Photo of Robert Alexander Rankine Campbell
Robert A.R. Campbell c1915 (from the WWI papers of his UofT friend, Capt. D'Arcy Prendergast RAF) -
Photo of ROBERT ALEXANDER RANKINE CAMPBELL
Picture from the Fallen listed on the University of Toronto Forestry Building, faculty memorial plaque and In Memoriam photo of Graduates and Undergraduates of the Faculty of Forestry Killed in Action -
Memorial
University of Toronto Forestry Building, faculty memorial tablet 1914 – 1918 In Memory Of the members of The Faculty of Forestry Who Gave their lives in the Great War 1926-01Jan-19 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Somme, France
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929).
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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