Simconians heard with expressions
of profound regret on Tuesday morning of the sudden death of Col. Duncan
Frederick Campbell, D.S.O., and M.P. for North Ayrshire, Scotland, in the
Imperial House of Commons.
Particulars of his death are not
yet to hand other than that it took place in London on Sunday, and
followed a very brief illness.
Colonel Campbell was born in
Toronto, and was the only child of Archibald, the elder of two sons of Duncan Campbell, Esq., of Lynnwood, Simcoe, Ont.
He had spent so much of his youth
here with his grandparents that he was looked upon by Simconians as one of
their own boys.
He was forty years of age.
As a lad he attended Trinity
College, Port Hope, and Upper Canada College. His education was completed
at Toronto and Cambridge Universities.
In 1898 Col. Campbell obtained a
commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers and went to live in Britain.
He won
his D.S.O. in the Boer war for conspicious gallantry in carrying to safety
his wounded and unconscious general.
After the war he secured a brigade
staff appointment in Scotland and two or three years ago won North
Ayrshire seat in the Commons in a bye-election [sic], defeating a
cabinet minister.
In the meantime he had transferred
to the Black Watch, and in the spring of 1915 he crossed to the continent
as second in command of a battalion of that regiment.
He was twice mentioned in
despatches [sic], and promoted to the rank of colonel. He was twice
wounded.
The picture of him on this page of The Reformer is from a
snapshot taken as he was entering the Parliament Building at Westminster
for the first time after recovering from the first wound.
Col. Campbell is survived by his
widow, a daughter of the late J. E. O'Reilley of Hamilton, Ont., and three children.
