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Lieutenant Robert Campbell Russell

 

Russell 1

 

Lieutenant Robert Campbell Russell, 7th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, formerly a Corporal in the North Irish Horse, Service No. 1297 (NIH). Son of the late Alfred and Sarah Ellen Russell. Mentioned in Despatches. Died of wounds on 31 August 1918, aged 28. Having no known grave, he is commemorated at Baku Memorial, Azerbaijan.

 

Russell 2

 

Image of memorial kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org. Newspaper clipping from The Irish Times, 4 January 1919.