Gordon Clyde Campbell

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772609

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Wentworth

Birth city:

Hamilton, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

284 Chatham Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

284 Chatham Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Cigar maker

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Miscellaneous

BX June 24, 1957

Discover Body of Man, 57, in Grand River Near Park

The body of Gordon Campbell, 57, of 16 Pearl Street was recovered from a Grand River backwater opposite Agricultural Park on Sunday. The fully-clothed body was found floating face-down by two young canoeists. Robert *****, Brant Avenue, and David ****, George Avenue. It was in five feet of water, about 15 feet from shore. The cove is located near the junction of Spalding and Ballantyne Drives. Police said Mr. Campbell had been in ill health for two years, and had recently been despondent.

Mr. Campbell served in the First World War with the 125th Battalion, enlisting before he was 16. He was retired, after working for some years as a lineman for the Ontario Hydro. He was unmarried.

He was born in Hamilton, son of the late Edward and Florence Campbell, but was a Brantford resident most of his life. He is survived by two brothers, Frank, Pickering Beach, Ont., formerly of Brantford, and Edward, Brantford, and three sisters, Mrs. Albert (Maude) Cogger, Brantford; Mrs. W. (Dorothy) Parker, Hamilton and Mrs. Michael (Anne) Foran, Brantford.

Mr. Campbell is resting at the Hill and Robinson Funeral Home. The service will be conducted there at 3.30 p.m. Tuesday by Rev. H.A. Smith, chaplain of the Telephone City Branch of the Canadian Legion, of which Mr. .Campbell was a member. Interment will be in the Soldiers’ Plot of Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX June 26, 1957

Gordon Clyde Campbell

The funeral of Gordon C. Campbell was conducted Today afternoon at the Hill and Robinson Chapel. Rev. H.A. Smith, Canadian Legion padre, officiated. Many relatives and friends attended, and there was a profusion of flowers. There was a representation from the Legion's Telephone City Branch and the Branch’s Ladies’ Auxiliary. Pallbearers were D. Monkman, B. Varey, J. Longbottom, H. Middleton, R. Kennedy and F. Casey, all Legionnaires, led by E.R. Edwards. Bugler John H.C. Montgomery sounded The Last Post at the graveside. Interment was in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.