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Lewis Edgar Campbell

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Headstone of Bombardier Lewis Edgar Campbell (2/2594). Divisional Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. New Zealand War Graves Trust (BEAZ1047). CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Headstone of Bombardier Lewis Edgar Campbell (2/2594). Divisional Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Lewis Edgar AWMM
  • Surname
    Campbell AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Leslie AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 2/2594 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Anglican, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    27 December 1881 New Zealand War Graves Project Southbridge, Canterbury New Zealand War Graves Project
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
    Son of John Robert & Margaret CAMPBELL Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 May 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Record
  • Address before enlistment
    Patutahi, Gisborne & then Sheep Farmer at Mangatewa, Takapau, Hawke's Bay Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 May 2023 - Military Record
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    William Campbell (brother), Christchurch Meat Company, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    single Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 May 2023 - Military Record

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 2/2594 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    11 October 1917 AWMMKilled in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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    • Previously employed as Sheep Farmer by Takapau, Hawkes Bay AWMM
    • GISBORNE TIMES, VOLUME XLVIII, ISSUE 4701, 27 OCTOBER 1917, PAGE 4
      Private Lewis Campbell, who before his enlistment was engaged in farming at Motu, has been killed in action. Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 27 January 2023 - GISBORNE TIMES, VOLUME XLVIII, ISSUE 4701, 27 OCTOBER 1917, PAGE 4
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Death

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  • Death
    11 October 1917 AWMM
    Ypres, Belgium AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Divisional Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM M. 18. AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    ROLL OF HONOUR -
    CAMPBELL - On September 11, Killed in Action, third son of the late John Robert CAMPBELL, late of Homebrook, Southbridge; 35 years Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 11 November 2023 - ROLL OF HONOUR.
    LYTTELTON TIMES, VOLUME CXVII, ISSUE 17625, 1 NOVEMBER 1917, PAGE 1
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  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      21: 33 AWMM
    • Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
      Vol. 3: Includes portrait AWMM
    • NZWGT: Information supplied by the New Zealand War Graves Trust as part of the New Zealand War Graves project. This project was established in 2006 to record in text and photographs the 31,758 New Zealanders who have been identifed as serving with New Zealand or Allied forces, and who died in conflicts from the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) up to the present day and in peacekeeping operations. AWMM
    • Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2. AWMM

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11 November 2023Lorraine Mona Gisborne Researcher

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