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e 2nd Battn. of his regt. in India
and proceeded with the battn. to France with the Indian Expeditionary
Force in the autumn of 1914. He was wounded in December and invalided
home, but rejoined early in 1915; was present at the Battles of Neuve
Chapelle, Richebourg, etc., and in all the other engagements in
which his battn. took part. He was killed in action in the trenches
near the Bois-de-Biez, 18 May, 1915, by a shell which burst on the
parapet of the trench, the repair of which he was directing. Letters
from his commanding officers speak most highly of him as an officer
and testify to the love and respect entertained for him by his men.
He was _unm._ His yr. brother, Lieut. Patrick Colin Campbell,
Royal Flying Corps, is now (1916) on active service with the British
Expeditionary Force in France.

 [Illustration: =Duncan Campbell.=]

=CAMPBELL, FREDERICK JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4781),
S.S. 104136, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast
of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; _m._

=CAMPBELL, GEORGE EDWARD FORMAN=, Lieut., 2/10th Gurkha Rifles,
yst. and only surviving _s._ of Col. Robert Neil Campbell, C.B.,
C.I.E., M.B., I.M.S. (ret.), by his wife, Ethel, dau. of Benjamin
Bensley; _b._ Strathyre, Balquhidder, 27 Aug. 1893; educ. at
Edinburgh Academy and Sandhurst, and gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 Aug. 1912.
A year later he was appointed to the Indian Army, and posted to the
2nd Battn. of the 10th Gurkha, 23 Nov. 1913. He was promoted Lieut. 24
Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, on Rhododendron
Spur, Chanak Bair, 7 August, 1915, in a charge on the Turkish trenches
with two battns. of New Zealanders (Auckland). He was mentioned in
Dispatches by Sir Ian Hamilton, 22 Sept. 1915; _unm._ His elder
brother, Capt. R. C. C. Campbell, died of wounds received at Ypres (see
his notice).

 [Illustration: =George E. F. Campbell.=]

=CAMPBELL, GEORGE JACKSON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8270),
S.S. 104251, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the
North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CAMPBELL, HAROLD EDGAR=, Cook's Mate, M. 2482, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CAMPBELL, JAMES=, Private, No. 4121, 1st Battn. Irish Guards,
3rd _s._ of Michael Campbell, of Tubberfin, Drogheda, Labourer,
by his wife, Jane, dau. of the late Patrick Kelly, of Howth; _b._
Sheephouse, Drogheda, 20 July, 1890; educ. Donore National Schools;
enlisted 20 May, 1912, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 11 March,
1915; _unm._

=CAMPBELL, JOHN=, Private, No. 19984, 4th Battn. Canadian
Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of the late Archibald Campbell,
by his wife, Helen Hogg (1, St. Ninian's Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of
the late James Lawson; _b._ Glencorse, Midlothian, 24 Dec. 1878;
educ. George Heriot's School, Edinburgh; joined the Army and served
with the Irish Guards, 1900-3, and afterwards went to British Columbia
gold mining. He joined the 4th Battn. 1st Canadian Contingent, 1914,
and died at No. 1 Canadian Field Ambulance, 24 May, 1915, of wounds
received in action; _unm._

=CAMPBELL, JOHN DAVIES=, Lieut., L Battery, R.H.A., eldest
_s._ of John Davies Campbell, of Howden Court, Tiverton;
_b._ Tacna, Chili, 1 March, 1883; educ. Cheltenham College and
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered the Army, 21 Dec. 1901, was
promoted Lieut. 21 Dec. 1904, and was killed in action at Nery, near
CompiƩgne 1 Sept. 1914. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French's
Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914.

=CAMPBELL, JOHN GORDON=, Private, No. 4296, 2nd Battn. The Royal
Scots, 3rd _s._ of Hugh Campbell, of 852, New City Road, Glasgow,
and Clam Cottage, Cloverhill, Glasgow, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of
James Munro; _b._ at North Woodside Road, 16 Sept. 1876; educ.
Henderson Street School, Glasgow; enlisted 1891, and was a Reservist
when called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; killed in action at
Kemmel, 22 April, 1915. He _m._ at Glasgow, 20 Feb. 1903, Alice
(Clare Cottage, Clover Hill, Drumchapel, Glasgow), dau. of Alexander
McDonald, and had a dau., Isabella Munro, _b._ 6 Aug. 1906.

 [Illustration: =John Gordon Campbell.=]

=CAMPBELL, KEITH MOREHEAD GUNNING=, Sub-Lieut., R.N., yst.
_s._ of Col. Gunning Campbell, Royal Marine Artillery, by his
wife, Sophia Charlotte Jean, dau of the Rev. George Barber Peregrine
Viner, M.A., and great-gdson, of William Campbell, of Fairfield;
_b._ Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth, 23 Dec. 1892; educ. Haskoll's
School, Folkestone, Suffolk House, Cheltenham, Pelham House,
Folkestone, and the Osborne (15 Sept. 1905, to 14 Sept. 1907) and
Dartmouth (15 Sept. 1907, to 14 Sept. 1909) Royal Naval Colleges,
being Chief Cadet Capt. at the latter. He served on H.M.S. St. Vincent
(May, 1910-June, 1911); the Cochrane, which formed one of the escort
on the occasion of the King's visit to India (June, 1911-May, 1912),
the Achilles (May, 1912-Sept. 1913), and the Albemarle, joining H.M.S.
Lawford in the spring of 1914. He was present at the sinking of the
Konigin Louise, and the engagement off the Bight of Heligoland. He was
commissioned to the Arrogant on 30 Nov. 1914, for submarine service,
and died between 4 and 12 Jan. the following year while on Active
Service on Submarine C 31; _unm._ A fine Rugby three-quarter back,
he several times played in the Royal Navy and United Services Fifteens,
his last important match being in the R.N. officers' team against the
Harlequins at the turn of the season of 1913-14 at Queen's Club.

 [Illustration: =Keith M. G. Campbell.=]

=CAMPBELL, KENNETH JAMES=, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), only _s._ of Robert Story Campbell,
of Achnashie, Rosneath, co. Dumbarton, retired East Indian Merchant,
by his wife, Evelyn Rose, dau. of the late Rev. William Henry Stokes,
Vicar of Goring, a nephew of the late Sir James Campbell, K.C.I.E.
(of the Bombay Civil Service and compiler of the Bombay Gazetteer),
and, gdson. of the late Rev. John Macleod Campbell, D.D.; _b._
Bombay, 4 Jan. 1891; educ. at Rottingdean and Marlborough, he proceeded
with a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his
degree with honours in History in 1912, and in "Greats" in 1914. He
had originally intended to take orders in the Church of England, and
on leaving the University in 1913 joined the Magdalen College Mission
in the Euston Road. On the outbreak of war, however, having been
for eight years a cadet in the O.T.C. at Marlborough and Oxford, he
applied for a commission, and on 2 Sept. was gazetted to the 1/9th
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, leaving Bedford with his regt. on
19 Feb. for France. He was killed in action near Ypres, being struck
by a shell while in charge of machine guns, 10 May. 1915; _unm._
His commanding officer wrote that he died "doing his duty nobly." His
platoon Sergt. that "He was a brave young officer and the pride of all
the platoon." A brother officer, writing on 13 May, stated: "I was
myself slightly wounded the same day, so was not on the spot when he
was killed, but

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