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Kenneth Archibald Campbell

In memory of:

Lieutenant Kenneth Archibald Campbell

January 23, 1917

Military Service


Age:

29

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

42nd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

October 9, 1887
Weymouth, Nova Scotia

Son of George Douglas Campbell and Kate Glidden Campbell. Native of North Weymouth, Nova Scotia. He was one of two brothers who lost their lives in the Great War. Six Campbell brothers served. Brother of Lt. Colin Gernon Palmer Campbell, Military Cross, killed in action near Passendaele on October 10, 1917.

Commemorated on Page 212 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

IV. B. 19.

Location:

Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Circumstances of Death Registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada.  CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames:  Cabana to Campling. Microform Sequence 17; Volume Number 31829_B016726. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 161.  Page 841 of 1024
  • Memorial– Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Halifax Evening Mail October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Halifax Evening Mail January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • The Six Campbell Brothers– Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Photo of Kenneth Archibald Campbell– Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Grave Marker– Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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