Lance Corporal John Ferguson Campbell, 5785
- Batt - 2
- Unit - Scots Guards
- Section -
- Date of Birth - 1884
- Died - 13/10/1918
- Age - 34
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of George and Elizabeth Campbell of Aberdeen, Scotland, and the husband of Constance Campbell of Stanstead, Essex. John served from 1904 until 1912 in South Africa, embarking with the British Expeditionary Force to France in 1914. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the back, buttocks and legs on the 4th October 1918, and died in hospital nine days later of pneumonia. He had been a servant to Brigadier Paynter.
Leicestershire Project Findings
- Conflict - World War I
- Burial Place - Iv H 3, Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
- Unit - Scots Guards
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Commemoration - Abbeville Com. Cem. Ext., France
- Born - Strichen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Enlisted - 1904 In Aberdeen, Scotland
- Memorial - ST DENYS CHURCH, EATON, LEICS
- Memorial - VILLAGE HALL MEMORIAL, EATON, LEICESTERSHIRE
