Second Lieutenant Clarence Victor Campbell
Army Number : n/a (formerly Private 2899)
Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
He was born and lived at Clay Cross, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Son of Francis William and Edith Gertrude Campbell, of “The Poplars,” Sheffield Road, Chesterfield. He went to France 28th February 1915 and was commissioned 27th June 1917 and joined the 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment at Cambrin, France, 17th September 1917. He was killed in action, 26th October 1917, aged 23, when a German winged bomb landed in a sentry post which he was visiting in the trenches near Hill 70, near Mazingarbe, France.
Buried : Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France. Plot 3. Row A. Grave 5.
Second Lieutenant Clarence Victor Campbell is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Bartholomew’s Church War Memorial, Clay Cross, Derbyshire.
Clay Cross War Memorial, Clay Cross, Derbyshire.
Worksop College War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
