Campion, Fred

BORN HULL 1887 SON OF SAMUEL GLOVER CAMPION (1854-1930) & MARY ANNIE OLIVER (1861-1925), LIVING AT 7, WALLER STREET AND 3, BALFOUR STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. SON OF A FISH DEALER. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN, INCLUDING SIX SONS. THREE DIED IN THE WAR. THE BROTHERS WORKED ON THE HULL DOCKS AND RAILWAYS. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A RAILWAY SHUNTER AND PORTER, WORKING AT HULL STATION.

HE MARRIED ESTHER MOORES, (BORN 12/6/1885), IN 1909. THEY HAD A SON, GEORGE, BORN 30/10/1909 AND THREE DAUGHTERS, BEATRICE, EDITH AND LILIAN, ALL BORN BETWEEN 1911-1916. THEY LIVED AT 73 , CHOLMLEY STREET, HULL

HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A GUNNER, 232636, IN THE 282ND ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 21/10/1917, AGED 29. (TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM).

HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ESTHER, WHO MOVED TO C/O, 8, VILLA ROW, COURTNEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). AWARDED WAR PENSION OF 33/9.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS MEMORIAL.
HIS BROTHER, HERBERT CAMPION, RAMC, LIVED AT 115, CONSTABLE STREET, HULL.

HIS OTHER BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOSEPH STANLEY CAMPION, 242283, 1/5TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS (TERRITORIALS) WAS KILLED ON 14/11/1916, AGED 20.

ANOTHER BROTHER, PRIVATE, WALTER CAMPION, 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS WOUNDED AT SERRE, AND DIED A PRISONER OF WAR , ON 15/11/1916, AGED 24.


First name:
FRED
Military Number:
232636
Rank:
Gunner
Date Died
21/10/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
29
3, BALFOUR STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK