BORN BARROW IN FURNESS, LANC 1893. SON OF ALEXANDER & ELIZABETH CAMPBELL, AT 12 YORK TERACE, PELHAM STREET HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 5 EASTBOURNE TERRACE, ARUNDLE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A BOILER MAKER. HE WORKED AS A HEATER. HUSBAND TO ANNIE MAUD McGOWAN, AT 14 MARVEL STREET, DRYPOOL, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 2ND COLDSTREAM GUARDS. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 27/04/1915. KILLED AT VERMELLES, ON 08/10/1915, AGED 22. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ANNIE MAUD MCGOWAN.
HE WAS ALSO BROTHER, TO JOHN, MAGGIE, ALICE, MARY, ARCHIBALD, ALBERT AND FREDDY.
First name:
WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
13047
Rank:
Private
Date Died
08/10/1915
Place died:
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
22
5 EASTBOURNE TERRACE, ARUNDLE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
