John Campbell, Finsbay, Harris

Company Sergeant Major JOHN CAMPBELL
Son of Finlay and Marion Campbell
Last known address in Harris:  Finsbay
Military unit: 6th Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 3/6314
Enlisted at Newport, Monmouthshire
Date of death: 6 August 1915 at the age of 45
Died of wounds
Interred: Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, grave I. A. 14.
Served in the South African Campaign.

John appears in the 1871 census, aged 6 months, the son of Mary and Finlay (both aged 36).  A decade later, he is aged 10, and has two younger siblings, Donald (8) and Marion (5).

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