Name
Cecil Awdry Campbell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/10/1918
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Engineers
250th Tunnelling Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL, SOUTHAMPTON
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Ipoh War Memorial, Malaysia
Plaque in St John’s Church, Ipoh, Malaysia
Pre War
Born on 23 May 1885 and baptised on 18 Jul 1885 at Ootacamund, Madras, India son of Lorne Augustus Campbell (I.C.S.) and Cecilia L. Campbell. Educated at Haileybury College 1899-1903. He later lived at 8 St James’s Square, London and then in Perrak, Malaysia.
Wartime Service
Entered France on 29 Apr 1917. Drowned while sailing from Liverpool on the Hirano Maru, a Japanese liner, which was torpedoed by UB 91 and sunk off the Irish coast with the loss of about 300 lives.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
