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Private Joseph Campbell

 

 

Number: 9402

Company: 46th (Belfast) Campany, 13th Battalion, First Contingent

ENLISTMENT

Date: 10 January 1900

Place: Belfast

Age: 34 years

Trade or calling: Farmer

Place of birth: In the Parish of Tamlaght, in or near the Town of Limavady, in the County of Londonderry

Address: Catherine Street, Limavady

Family: Single. Father John Campbell, mother Mary Campbell, of Aghanloo, Limavady, Londonderry.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 7". Complexion fresh, eyes brown, hair black.

Religion: Presbyterian

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 3 March 1900

Date home: 5 March 1901

Actions: Lindley

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, 1901 clasps.

DISCHARGE

Date: 16 April 1901

Place: Belfast

Reason for discharge: At his own request

 

Campbell was among the 400 men captured by Boer forces at Lindley in May 1900. He was released on 30 August with the other members of the 13th Battalion when the British captured Nooitgedacht.

On 21 February 1905 he married Emily Jane MacDonnell in the Broadlaw Presbyterian Meetinghouse, Drumachose, County Londonderry. At the time of the 1911 Census the couple and their two children were living on their farm at Ballycastle, Aghanloo.

 

Coleraine Chronicle, 27 January 1900

 

Coleraine Chronicle, 22 September 1900

 

Coleraine Chronicle, 15 June 1901

 

Coleraine Chronicle, 6 July 1901

 

Image of Campbell from the Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 2 June 1900.

This page last updated 20 November 2024.