Campbell C W B 2nd Lt 1st Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders
COLIN WILLIAM BURNLEY CAMPBELL, B.Sc. (Glas.), born at Rothesay on the 9th March, 1888, was killed in action in France on the 27th June, 1915. He was a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Educated at Marlborough College and at Glasgow University, he went to America and was there employed on an irrigation dam in Mexico, under Lord Cowdray, and on asphalte works in Venezuela. He was later engaged with Sir John Jackson’s firm on waterworks at Beirout, and on Singapore harbour works.
He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in December, 1913.
Source : The Institution Of Civil Engineers Memorial Volume 1914-1919
BURNLEY-CAMPBELL, COLIN WIL-LIAM, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Special Reserve), attd. 1st, Battn. Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Hardin Burnley-Campbell, of Ormidale, Colintraive, Argyle, J.P. and D.L., late 6th Dragoon Guards, now County Commandant of the new Argyleshire Volunteer Regt., by his wife, Margaret Jane Campbell, only child and heir of William Morrison Hunter, and Catherine Helen, his wife, dau. and heir of Lieut. Col. Robert Nutter Campbell, of Ormidale; b. Craigmore, Bute, 9 March, 1888; educ. Marlborough College and Ardvreck School, Crieff Glasgow University (B.Sc. 1912); was a Civil Engineer by profession and an Associate Member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and Member of the Royal Geographical Society, and had held appointments in Mexico, Venezuela, Syria and Singapore, from whence he returned to join the Colours on the outbreak of war. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4 Nov.1914, and was killed in action 27 June, 1915, by a bullet through the heart, while scouting alone in front of the trenches in Northern France. Buried in the Military Cemetery at Chapelle l’Armentières; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 2