Person:Charles Campbell (37)

Charles Vincent (Vinnie) Campbell was born in Wardsville, Ontario in 1872, son of Peter Charles Campbell and Matilda Henderson. His mother died in 1877 four days after giving birth to a girl who only lived one day. In 1882 when Vinnie was 10, his father remarried and then moved the family to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Vinnie was active in the area militia and became a Lieutenant-Colonel in World War 1. He died in 1922 at only 43 years in a veterans hospital in Toronto, from an abdominal tumor and pulmonary tuberculosis perhaps brought on from a trauma in the war.

1881 Census: Wardsville, ON, ethnic Scottish, age 8.

1881 October 1st, Charles V. wrote in aunt Minnies autograph book "Dear Aunt Minnie, My ideas are but few but I love you as if they were many. Your little nephew, Vinnie Campbell."

1891 Census: Eastern Division [ALGOMA], ON, page 2, line 3, age 18, born ON, ON, ON, C of E. recorded as C.V. Campbell.

1901 Census: Sault Ste Marie, ON, Sep 16 1874, age 26, office clerk.

1911 Census: Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Sep 1873, age 37, hardware store

1917 Officers' Declaration Paper, COEF: Unit 238th forestry, rank Major, Charles Vincent Campbell, b. Wardsville, ON, 16 Sep 1876, Res. 145 Pim St., Sault Ste Marie, accountant, episcopalian, next of kin Martha Campbell, step mother. Militia service 51st Regt. of Soo Rifles. Military service 97th regt. Thessalon Rifles.

1917 June 13th: Document filed at Probate Court, Penobscot, ME re Eder Henderson estate. Charles Vincent Campbell, Orton Park, Carlisle, England, Box 14.

1901 Foster's Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. directory...embracing a street directory and guide : an alphabetical list of names, a classified business directory, and miscellaneous directory. -- (1901), page 27. Pim St. where Herrick St. commences; Campbell C Vincent

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Archives Ontario Birth, series MS 929
   reel 7, page 429, #6629, 13 Oct 2006.
2. ↑ Archives Ontario Death, MS 935
   reel 274, page ?, #3501, 13 Oct 2006.
3. ↑ From http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca, Toronto Star, May 7, 1921.: War Veteran Dies. Lieut.-Col. C. V. Campbell, O.B.E., 146 Pim Street, Sault Ste. Marie, died at Christie Street hospital yesterday from heart trouble. He was 46 years old. Prior to the war he was an accountant at Sault Ste. Marie. He was formerly a member of the town council, and was a past grand master in the Masonic Order. In religion he was an Anglican. Surviving are his widow and mother. [Added comment from Veterans Affairs] In 1921 Christie Street Hospital in Toronto still had several hundred WWI veterans as patients.
   Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Korah, ALGOMA at site ST-075-166-2.
   Order of the British Empire (Military Division)
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   The Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Member of the Order of the British Empire
   The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire was instituted in 1917. As with the Civil Division, the Military Division of the Order comprises five classes: Knights and Dames Grand Cross (GBE), Knights and Dames Commanders (KBE and DBE), Commanders (CBE), Officers (OBE) and Members (MBE).