CAMPBELL, Norman Murray Priggen

Rank: 
Lance Sergeant
Unit / Base: 
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
5958258
Died : 
Monday, February 26, 1945
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
24
Cemetery/Memorial: 

Lance Sergeant Norman Campbell, 3 Troop, died of wounds during the 6 week period when No.2 Commando was placed "in the line" in Italy under 5 Corps. Son of Norman Priggen Campbell, and of Minnie Louise P. Campbell, of Wootton, Bedfordshire.
The War Diary records that he was seriously injured, later dying of his wounds, during shelling that took place between 1110hrs and 1550hrs. The same entry records that LBdr. King was also killed during this shelling.
He is also referred to in the diary entry for February 1945 of Victor Miller of No 2 Commando, "Mon 26th  Things are pretty sticky, my mates in 3 troop are catching it, Bob, Bampton, Bill, Campbell, Jocko, Timber ...all dead."

Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/89.
No. 2 Cdo. War Diary 26 Feb.1945. 
National Archives file WO/218/82.

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