George Albert CAMPBELL

1895 - 1916  (20 years)

• Name	George Albert CAMPBELL  [1]
  Birth	8 Jul 1895	, Wellington, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada   [2]
  	the family tombstone has an inscribed birth year of 1896. His military record has his birth year incorrectly recorded as 1885
  Baptism	25 Aug 1895	, the Free Church of Scotland, possibly Birch Hill, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1901	, Lot 16, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada   [3]
  	included in the household with Gelean (age 62) were his wife, Letitia MacDougall (age 60), their children, Jane (age 17) & John (age 34), his wife, Emma Barlow (age 25), their children, Albert (age 5), William (age 3) and Roland (6 months). Gelean and John were farmers. The family religion was Presbyterian. Role: Witness
  Milit-Beg	6 Apr 1915	, Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada   [4]
  	he enlisted in the army, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
  Name	Albert Campbell  [3]
  Death	2 Jun 1916	,,, Belgium   [4, 5]
  	he was killed in action in World War I. The family tombstone has his death date incorrectly inscribed as 1918. It also recorded that he was killed in France, yet the Canadian Virtual War Memorial recorded that he was killed in Belgium.
  		ww1063 First World War Book of Remembrance, Page 63, George Albert Campbell.
  Burial	, Menin Gate War Memorial, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium,, 50.85203;2.89113   [4]
  	The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words: TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription: HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH. The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915." Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  Person ID	I106713	Ancestral Trails
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	John G. CAMPBELL,   b. 1866   d. 1918 (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Grace Emma BARLOW,   b. Abt 1876, , Prince Edward Island d. 1960 (Age ~ 84 years)
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Family ID	F27405	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S9357] Cemetery Transcript - Free Ch. Scot. Cape Traverse, 9357. (Reliability: 3). [S10979] Baptismal Record - George Albert Campbell, 10979. (Reliability: 2). [S10984] 1901 Canada Census - Gelain Campbell, 10984. (Reliability: 3). [S10981] Death Record - George Albert Campbell, 10981. (Reliability: 3). [S9357] Cemetery Transcript - Free Ch. Scot. Cape Traverse, 9357. (Reliability: 2).