Driver NORMAN CAMPBELL
Last address in Lewis: 12 Aird,
Son of Donald and Jessie Campbell, of 12, Aird Point, Stornoway.
Service unit: Royal Garrison Artillery, 4th Highland Battery
Service number: 4288
Date of death: 9 August 1915 at the age of 20
Died of wounds sustained at Suvla Bay
Memorial: Helles Memorial, Panel 23 or 325
Local memorial: Point (Garrabost); Nicolson Institute WW1, left panel
Norman enlisted at the age of 17 years and 9 months, when he was still a student at the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway. The date of enlistment is 28 March 1911. He stands 5 feet 5 ins tall, and is fit for service. He attends training in the years 1911, 1912 and 1913, and is embodied on 9 August 1914, just after the commencement of hostilities. Exactly a year later, he is in the fighting at Gallipoli when he suffers a gunshot wound in the left thigh. Norman is taken on board the hospital ship Soudan, where he dies the same day.
His siblings are named as Mary (21), Angus (19), John (16), Alexander (14), Malcolm (11), Norman (8). His father Donald is listed in the 1901 census as a fisherman. His brother Angus served in the RNR.
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