Second Lieutenant Robert Alexander Rankine Campbell

1. Second Lieutenant (British Army).
2. Private (Army). 1914-11-10 ?
3. Sergeant, 15th Battalion, Infantry (Army). 1915-04-01 ?

Son of Robert Lewis and Alice Elizabeth Campbell, of Bromley, Kent. Educated at Berkhamsted School, Herts, and Toronto University, Canada. previous service-102nd Regt

From the University of Toronto Honour Roll, 1914-1918:

ROBERT ALEXANDER RANKINE CAMPBELL March 19, 1893 July i, 1916

Second Lieutenant, West Yorkshire Regiment.

Son of Robert Louis Campbell; b. Terra vallur, India; ed. Berkhamsted School,
Eng.; Trinity College and Forestry, 1910-14.

In the autumn of 1914 he enlisted in the 3Oth Battalion in British Columbia,
where he had been working during the summer, and went overseas with the rank of
Sergeant in the spring of 1915. At the end of April he joined the I5th Battalion in
France and served through the battles of Festubert and Givenchy. He was appointed
to the 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment, 8th Division, in August, and served with it through
the battle of Loos in September and on the La Bassee front. His battalion moved to
the Somme front near Albert in April, and in June he was injured by a shell but returned
immediately to duty. After the first day of the battle of the Somme he was reported as
wounded and missing near La Boisselle. He was last seen to fall wounded while leading
his platoon forward in support. Two weeks later his body was found and buried. His
Commanding Officer wrote "During the bombardment prior to the attack in which he
was killed he had carried out several daring reconnaissances, and had he survived I
should have forwarded his name for reward".

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Left Prince Rupert, BC in First Contingent, Nov. 1914 to enlist in Victoria, BC.

Started out as 77475, CEF; transferred to Prince of Wales Own, BEF. Died at Thiepval on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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