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 I understand that he was wounded by a shell, but that
he continued to serve the gun until a second shell killed him." He was
stroke of his college boat in the Torpids when Magdalen was head of the
river in Feb. 1913.

 [Illustration: =Kenneth James Campbell.=]

=CAMPBELL, KENNETH McKENZIE=, Corpl., No. 17101, 7th Battn.
(British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._
of James Campbell Campbell, of Dublin, by his wife, Jane Davidson,
dau. of the late John Christie, of Bankhead, Aberdeen, and gdson. of
the late Sergt. and Master Tailor Alexander Campbell, 93rd Sutherland
Highlanders (who served 28 years); _b._ Dublin, 3 Aug. 1884;
educ. Hardwicke National School there; went to Canada in April, 1906;
enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first
contingent; was wounded at Festubert, 23 April, 1915; and promoted
Corpl. on his return to duty, 16 May following, but was killed in
action at Givenchy eight days later, 24 May, 1915; _unm._

 [Illustration: =Kenneth M. Campbell.=]

=CAMPBELL, MALCOLM DRING=, Lieut., R.N.V.R., 3rd _s._ of
the Rev. Herbert Ernest Campbell, of The Abbey, Carlisle, Canon of
Carlisle; _b._ St. George's Vicarage, Millom, 5 Sept. 1890; educ.
Loretto; was a Cotton Broker in the firm of Bushby Bros., Liverpool,
but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. joined the R.N.V.R. He
served through the siege of Antwerp, and was afterwards sent to the
Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 2 May, 1915; _unm._
He was a good sportsman, played football for Birkenhead Park, and rowed
for the Mersey Rowing Club.

=CAMPBELL, MALCOLM JAMES=, Private, No. 53323, 18th Battn.
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._ of the late Malcolm
Campbell, of Lismore, co. Argyle, by his wife, Mary (Backwater School
House. Dykends, by Alyth, co. Perth), dau. of George M. Forrester, of
Tayport; _b._ Tayport, co. Fife, 4 Aug. 1894; educ. at Tayport;
emigrated to Canada in Oct. 1912, and after the outbreak of war
enlisted at Kingsville in Nov. 1914. After going through a course of
training at London, Ontario, he came to England in May, 1915, and was
in camp at Sandling, Kent, till Sept., when the battn. went to the
Western Front. Private Campbell was killed in action near Ypres, 13
Oct. 1915; unm. The Chaplain wrote that he "had indeed proved himself
a very faithful soldier," and had "done his part always well." He was
buried in Ridgewood Cemetery, Dickebusch, south-west of Ypres, Belgium.

 [Illustration: =Malcolm James Campbell.=]

=CAMPBELL, ROBERT=, Private, No. 2105, 4th Battn., 1st Brigade,
Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of Kenneth Campbell, of
Wick, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of David Sutherland, of Duncansbay;
_b._ Wick, 13 Jan. 1873; educ. there; went to Australia in 19--,
and settled at Sydney. After the outbreak of war he joined (Feb. 1915)
the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Lone
Pine, Gallipoli, between the 6-9 Aug. 1915. He was one of the few who
took the Turkish trench, and was found beyond it. A letter from the
Chaplain said: "He fought like a hero, and died as such, and they
buried him a few days later in the military cemetery at Burrows Dip."
He _m._ at Barry, co. Glamorgan, 6 Aug. 1904, Flora Hannah (9,
Trenwith Terrace, St. Ives, Cornwall), dau. of the Rev. Henry Roe, and
had a dau., René, _b._ 7 Aug. 1905.

 [Illustration: =Robert Campbell.=]

=CAMPBELL, ROBERT CHARLES COWBURN=, Capt., 3rd King's Own Scottish
Borderers, _s._ of Col. Robert Neil Campbell, of Elsieshields,
Lochmaben, co. Dumfries, C.B., C.I.E., M.B., I.M.S. (ret.), by his
wife, Ethel, dau. of Benjamin Bensley; _b._ Shillong, Assam,
India, 26 March, 1889; educ. Dollar Institution, Edinburgh Academy
and King's College, Cambridge. He entered the Bombay Burma Trading
Corporation, Ltd., in 1910, and was home on leave when war broke out.
He volunteered, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd King's Own
Scottish Borderers, 4 Sept. 1914, being promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914,
and Capt. 5 Feb. 1915. He was attached to the 2nd Highland L.I., and
served with them in the trenches from Dec. 1914, to March 1915, and at
Givenchy and Neuve Chapelle. He reverted to the 2nd King's Own Scottish
Borderers in April, 1915; was in the attack and capture of Hill 60, and
was wounded in the counter-attack at Ypres on 23 April, 1915. He died
at Queen Alexandra's Hospital for Officers, Highgate, 19 May following;
_unm._ He was in the Rugby and cricket teams of the Edinburgh
Academy, and obtained his Blue at Cambridge for Rugby football, and was
in the King's College Rugby and soccer football, cricket and hockey
teams. His yst. and only surviving brother, Lieut. G. E. F. Campbell,
was killed in action at the Dardanelles (see his notice).

 [Illustration: =Robert C. C. Campbell.=]

=CANDY, PHILIP SADLER=, Midshipman. R.N., 2nd _s._ of John
Alfred Sadler Candy, of Kingston, Angmering, co. Sussex, by his wife,
Emily Louisa French, dau. of Capt. Edward Holland Hills, R.N., of
Littlehampton, co. Sussex; _b._ 24 Feb. 1899; educ. Charlecote,
Worthing; entered the Osborne Class on H.M.S. Conway, Jan. 1911, and
afterwards went through a course of training at Dartmouth. He became
Midshipman in Aug. 1914, and was lost on H.M.S. Monmouth in the naval
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. A tablet to his
memory was placed in Ferring Parish Church, near Worthing.

 [Illustration: =Philip Sadler Candy.=]

=CANHAM, HERBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 861), H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CANN, CHARLES=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 4211, H.M.S. Hogue,
_s._ of Robert Cann, of 81, Percy Place, Dublin; lost in action in
the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CANN, ROBERT HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14258, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CANNON, CHARLES EDWIN=, Private, No. 1972, 5th Battn. Queen's
Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late (--) Cannon,
by his wife, S. (Felix Cottages, Updown Hill, Windlesham, Surrey);
_b._ Windlesham, co. Surrey, 16 April, 1885; educ. Windlesham
Board School; joined the Surrey Territorials in 1912; volunteered
for foreign service after the outbreak of war; left England with the
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force ....; was severely wounded in the
chest at the Dardanelles and sent to Alexandria, and died on the
hospital ship Asturias on his way back to England at 2 p.m. 23 Sept.
1915; unm. Buried at sea.

=CANNON, HUGH STANLEY=, Corpl., No. 28754, and Motor
Despatch Rider, R.E., 2nd _s._ of the late Alfred Cannon, of
Sandford-on-Thames, Oxford; _b._ Sandford-on-Thames, 15 Oct. 1888;
educ. Roysse's School and Magdalen College, Oxford. On the outbreak
of war enlisted in the R.E., was promoted Corpl., attached to the 6th
Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division (as despatch rider), and left for
the Front, 6 Oct. 1914; served in France and Flanders, and was killed
whilst on his motor bicycle carrying Despatches at the First Battle
of Ypres, 31 Oct.

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