Campbell, Joseph Daniel

Date of birth:: August 3rd, 1914 (Dominion/Nova Scotia, Canada)
Date of death:: February 10th, 1945 (Drunen/North Brabant, Netherlands)
Buried on:: Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: XV. Row: H. Grave: 14.
Service number:: F/75909
Nationality:: Canadian

Biography

Private
Algonquin Regiment, R.C.I.C.

In February 1945, while stationed in Waalwijk, Netherlands, near Drunen, Private Campbell along with Private Braden Bolger went to investigate some enemy mines. The two Algonquin soldiers, belonging to “C” Company, had been inspecting enemy mines as trained assault pioneers (infantrymen that conduct engineering tasks within the Battalion).
According to the Algonquin war diary for February 10, the two soldiers “had gone forward on request of Captain T. P. Richardson, acting Officer Commanding “A” Company. Captain Richardson felt he needed a clearing party to check over a route that one of his platoons was to take to a new position.” Private Bolger was seen to bend over a mine, to inspect it. All of a sudden, for an unknown reason, the German Teller-Mine exploded and killed both Private Bolger and Private Campbell instantly.

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