Henry John Fletcher Campbell obituary

Royal Navy obituary in the Times newspaper

The following obituary for Henry John Fletcher Campbell appeared in the Times newspaper.

*Obituary in the Times* newspaper**
Date	Obituary
3 January 1914	Rear-Admiral Henry John Fletcher Campbell, C.B., died late on Thursday night at his residence on Wimbledon Common from pneumonia. Born in 1837. Rear-Admiral Campbell joined the Navy in September, 1849. As midshipman of the St. Jean d’Acre, he served in the Baltic expedition of 1854 and in the Black Sea, and was present at the operations against Kertch, Kinburn, and Sebastopol. In 1878 he was commander and Captain of the Active during the Zulu War and landed in command of the Naval Brigade drawn from the crews of the Active, Shah, Boadicea, and Tenedos and forming part of General Crealock's column. He thus gained the Baltic, Crimean and Turkish, and the Zulu medals, and in 1879 was made a C.B. He was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, and held Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee medal. He retired from the Service in 1888. Rear-Admiral Campbell was unmarried, and. for a number of years since his retirement had resided with his sister at Beech Lodge, on Wimbledon Common. In I906 he entered municipal life and to the time of his death represented Southfields on the Wandsworth Borough Council. He was also vice-president of the Wandsworth Conservative and Unionist Association.