The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

neilston · Joined: 14 Dec 2012 Posts: 370 Location: Neilston

Campbell Hugh Died 1918 March 10th he Resided 4 Mill street Barrhead enlisted 19th Oct 1917 at Paisley Age 24 Years and 7 months private s/20155 Died at home due to lacerated wounds leg 2days -Pulmonary congestion 1 day - Was age 25

"Name:
Hugh Campbell
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
abt 1893
Age:
24
Document Year:
1917
Residence Place:
4 Mill Road, Barrhead Renfrewshire
Regimental Number:
6204
Regiment Name:
Gordon Highlanders
Form Title:
Record of Service
" Father Duncan of mill rd Barrhead ( a grocer ) Hugh was a Water poof worker lately Private Gordon highlanders on death cert. mother Mary Campbell Nee Bankier, Father present at death

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:08 am Post subject:

His pension record exists on Ancestry.
Enlisted as Private 6204 19/10/1917 39th Training Reserve
Transferred as Private S/20155, 2/5th Gordon Highlanders 12/12/1917
Treated at 4th Scottish General Hospital
Discharged 19/1/1918 "no longer physically fit for war service"
However I cannot see what the cause was.
I assume he was injured during training - this might be a problem in connecting his cause of death to his reason for discharge - but maybe not???
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Ken

neilston · Joined: 14 Dec 2012 Posts: 370 Location: Neilston

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 1:51 pm Post subject:

Yes indeed Matt, but it's the folks at the Army Museum and at CWGC who will need to be convinced, via evidence, that the cause of discharge and the cause of death are the same.

Many of us have examples of men named on war memorials who have not been accepted for inclusion on the CWGC Debt of Honour Register.
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Ken