Private JOHN CAMPBELL
Last address in Lewis: 5 Lionel,
Son of the late Murdo Campbell and of Annie Campbell, of 5, Lionel, Ness, Stornoway.
Service unit: 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 317056
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 4 May 1917 at the age of 26
Killed in action in France
Interred: Crump Trench British Cemetery, Fampoux, grave II. C. 16
Local memorial: North Lewis, Cross
John is shown in the 1901 census at a Squatters House, with his parents Murdo and Annie (both aged 46) and his siblings Annie (16), Catherine (14), Donald (12), Henrietta (7), Dolina (5) and Murdina (2).
From the battalion's war diary
The battalion is entrenched near Roeux.
Comparatively quiet day with desultory shelling on both sides. The posts in front dug by RIF were lost, held by day being insufficiently dug. Two other officers joined from reinforcement depot at SAVY.
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