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Fireman Charles Robert Lester Campbell

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Military service

Age: 26
Rank: Fireman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Umba (London, England) (142331)
Birth: March 11, 1892 Carleton, New Brunswick
Death: April 30, 1918 English Channel

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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His real name is Charles Robert Lester.

Son of George McGregor Campbell and Mary Ann Sears. Husband of Olive Gertrude Hovey, of Saint John, New Brunswick. Father of Clarence Lester, Ralph Blaine, Burton Levi and Clayton Campbell.

On 30 April 1918, while en route from Dunkirk, France, to Barry Roads, Wales, she was torpedoed by UB-57 one mile (1.5 km) south of the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse in the English Channel off Eastbourne, Sussex, England. Of the 25 crew members, 20 lost their lives.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 17 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

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