Name |
George Richard Colin CAMPBELL |
Rank/Number |
Lieutenant Commander |
Regiment/Unit |
Royal Navy HMS President / RH Compass Dept (Slough) |
Enlisted |
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Age/Date of death |
34 / 10 Oct 1918 |
How died/Theatre of war |
Drowned / Irish Sea |
Residence at death |
The Poplars, Langley |
Cemetery |
Grangegorman Military Cemetery, County Dublin, Ireland |
Grave Reference |
CE. Officers. 29 |
Location of memorial |
Langley - not on War Memorial |
Date/Place of birth |
c1884 / Ballyeglish, Moneymore, Co Derry |
Date/Place of baptism |
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Occupation of Casualty |
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Parents/Occupation |
Edward F & Lydia Campbell / Clerk in Holy Orders |
Parents' Address |
Sheskburn, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, Ireland |
Wife |
Eileen Campbell (late) nee Knox-Browne |
Wife's Address |
Aughentaine, Five Mile Town, Co Tyrone |
Notes |
drowned in the Irish Sea from HMS Leinster with his wife & child. Inventor of Campbell-Bennett aperiodic compass |