CAMPION, Thomas

Thomas Campion was born in Brierley Hill and was a miner at the Cuckoo Pits in Mill Srtet. He was married with three children. He enlisted in the North Staffordshire Regiment and was transferred, probably after recovery from wounds, to the 13th (Service) Battalion of the King’s Liverpool Regiment. They were part of the 3rd Division and fought on the Somme in 1916 and in the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. They moved to Artois for the Battle of Cambrai in November and suffered heavily in the German counter-attack. Private Thomas Campion was severely wounded by shell-fire and was moved to a military hospital where he died on the 12th December. He was 28 years of age and is buried at Favreuil Cemetery (II D 19) near Bapaume and commemorated on the Brierley Hill and Brierley Hill church Memorials.