PVT Ceford Cecil Campbell

PVT Ceford Cecil Campbell was born 7 Oct 1917 in Charleston, West Virginia to George Pleasant and Rosa E. (Burdette) Campbell.  His father worked in a feed store and farmed. Mother Rosa died in 1926. In 1940 Ceford was working for a "gas company" and had a reported income in 1939 of $160.  He was living with members of his extended family on his mother's side.

Ceford was drafted in  February 1942 and trained as a medic.  Assigned to the Medical Detachment 116th Infantry and attached from that unit to Headquarters Company 1st Battalion 116th Infantry, PVT Campbell was present for the D-Day invasion of "fortress Europe".  He was killed in action on 6 Jun 1944.

PVT Campbell was repatriated in 1948 and buried in Legg Cemetery in Sissonville, West Virginia.