A Bridge of Allan interest 'Killed-in-Action' First Day Battle of Loos - Scotland's Bloodiest Battle - medal group of 3: Lance-Sergeant James Campbell 'D' Company 8th (Service) Battalion Gordon Highlanders

- 1914-15 Star (S-2173, Cpl. J. Campbell. Gord. Highrs.)
- British War Medal. Silver issue (S-2173 Cpl. J. Campbell. Gord. Highrs.)
- Interallied Victory Medal (S-2173 Cpl. J. Campbell. Gord. Highrs.)

Killed-in-Action: Lance-Sergeant James Campbell, 8th (Service) Battalion Gordon Highlanders is confirmed 'Killed-in-Action' at the 'Battle of Loos', France, on 25 September 1915. Scotland's 'Bloodiest Ever Day of Warfare'

The body of James Campbell was never recovered from the battlefield, but his life and supreme sacrifice is commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on a regimental panel at the Loos Memorial located in the Pas de Calais region France

In his native Scotland, the name and service details of Lance-Sergeant James Campbell are inscribed on the War Memorial located in the Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland

Medals Verification: All of the three x Great War Medals confirmed as entitled, per the below following cited medal rolls:

- 1914-15 Star: WO 329/2800. Shows that James disembarked France 10/05/15 and 'Died in the Field 25/9.15.'
- British War Medal. Silver issue: WO 329/1652, shows served with 8/Gordons
- Interallied Victory Medal: WO 329/1652, shows served with 8/Gordons

The local newspaper 'The Bridge of Allan Gazette' issue of, 6 November 1915, published the below article pertaining to Lance-Sergeant James Campbell:

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Bridge of Allan Gordon Wounded and Missing

Official intimation was received by his relatives in Bridge of Allan on Wednesday that Lance-Sergeant James Campbell, 8th Gordon Highlanders, previously unofficially reported wounded, is wounded and missing. In private life, Sergeant Campbell was employed with Messers Rober Pullar and Sons, Keirfield Works, Bridge of Allan

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Note, the body of James Campbell was never again seen after 25 September 1915. Extant records of enquiries received by the International Red Cross, from his mother, were ominously returned marked as 'Disappeared' - the unfortunate classification used to report on soldiers, fallen in battle, but whose bodies were never recovered from the field of battle, and for which there was no further positive sightings beyond the day they were known to have become a casualty

James Campbell, son of Mrs Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Reid (who was the notified next of kin in 1915, at which time she was residing at, 36 Avenue Park, Bridge of Allan, near Stirling, Scotland) was a native of Callander, Perthshire, Scotland, where he was born in 1892. The reference 'Soldiers Died in th Great War', shows that James enlisted in the British Army, at Dunblane,Stirlingshire, Scotland

Condition: GVF

Code: 24949