Name |
George Richard Colin CAMPBELL |
Rank/Number |
Lieutenant Commander |
Regiment |
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 |
Last known address |
The Poplars, Langley |
Cemetery |
Grangegorman Military Cemetery, County Dublin, Ireland |
Grave or Memorial Reference |
CE. Officers. 29 |
Possible Location |
Langley - not on War Memorial |
Date/Place of birth |
c1884 Ballyeglish, Moneymore, Co Derry |
Date/Place of baptism |
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Pre-war occupation of Casualty |
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Parents |
Edward F & Lydia Campbell |
Parent's occupation |
Clerk in Holy Orders |
Parents' Address (last known) |
Sheskburn, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, Ireland |
Wife |
Eileen Campbell (late) nee Knox-Browne |
Wife's Address (last known) |
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 |