Arthur Raymond Campbell

Arthur Raymond Campbell

Service no T/265191

Private, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 11th Battalion

Killed in action 1 October 1918, aged 25

CWGC: "Son of the late Mrs. S. E. Campbell."

Born in Walworth, lived in Clapham, enlisted at Kingston-upon-Thames

Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Arthur Raymond Campbell was living in three rooms at 24 Hoyle Road, Tooting with his widowed mother, Sarah Campbell, 45, who was born in Oxford, and his two siblings Henry Campbell, 20, a tailor's general assistant, born in Newington, and Rose Campbell, 14, born in Bermondsey. Arthur, then 17, was a bookseller's assistant. The census states that he was born in Newington, near the Elephant and Castle.

Information from the 1901 census

Arthur's father, Henry Campbell, who died between 1901 and 1911, is on the 1901 census as a chef. He was born in Bermondsey. In 1901 the family were living at 26 Martin Street, Bermondsey.