2nd Lieutenant John Greenbank CAMPBELL
Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War
2nd Lieutenant John Greenbank CAMPBELL

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2nd Lieutenant John Greenbank CAMPBELL

We are very grateful to the website, "Craven's Part in the Great War", for the photo and information on 2nd Lieutenant Campbell.

2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas and Agnes Campbell, of Town Head, Austwick, Lancaster. Killed 8 May 1918. Aged 24.
Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL.

2ND LIEUT. J. G. CAMPBELL, Yorkshire Regiment, officially reported missing since an engagement on May 7th and 8th, 1918, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Campbell, Town Head, Austwick. He enlisted in May, 1915, in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Bradford Pals), and went to Egypt in December the same year. He was transferred to France the following March, where he joined the cyclist section, in which he stayed up to about November, when he came home to take up a commission. He had only returned to France three weeks when he met his death. Prior to the war he was a clerk in the employ of the Midland Railway Co. He was 24 years of age.

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