Identity
Person No.
22325
Service No.
31308
Last Name
First Name
Colin Campbell
Initials
C C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, in a Composite Coy attack on positions to the front which began at 0400. However, heavy enemy fire and mounting casualties resulted in the Coy being withdrawn under a smoke screen supplied by the Artillery. The Regiment was holding positions at Gazala, at the time
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019.
Notes
Son of Colin Campbell and Jessie Hamilton Sawyer, of 34 Hathorn Avenue, Sydenham, Johannesburg. Husband of Violet Margaret Sawyer, of 42, Forest St, Forest Hills, Johannesburg. Born Boksburg, Transvaal. A salesman. They had no children.
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