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7th of December 1916
- He gave his word and was indeed released. After arriving in England on the 7th of December 1916, he spent a week with his mother at his family home in Gravesend. After that, he returned to Magdeburg as he promised to the Kaiser and was again sent to the POW camp.
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Captured as a prisoner of war by Imperial Germany in 1914, he was held in captivity for two years before appealing to the Kaiser for a visit to his dying mother. His request was granted and after a two-week visit he voluntarily returned to the POW camp, where he remained until the end of the war.
Oct 17, 2017 · In 1914, British Army Captain Robert Campbell was captured by German forces just outside of France. Injured in the attack, he was taken to a military hospital in Cologne and treated before being taken to a German prisoner-of-war camp in Magdeburg, Germany.
Sep 4, 2013 · 4 September 2013. Capt Campbell travelled by boat and train to visit his sick mother in Gravesend, Kent. A British officer captured during World War I was granted leave to visit his dying...
Feb 13, 2015 · Captain Campbell survived his imprisonment, remaining in the camp until the end of the war. He continued to serve in the Armed Forces until he retired in 1925. When World War Two broke out in 1939 he returned to the Army as a Chief Observer in the Royal Observer Corps based on the Isle of Wight.
Oct 17, 2016 · Capt Campbell was freed from the camp at the end of the war and returned to Britain. He eventually retired from the military in 1925. He again joined his former regiment at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. He managed to survive the war unscathed and died in July 1966, aged 81.
Sep 3, 2013 · A British soldier was freed from a German POW camp during World War One to see his dying mother – and kept his promise to the Kaiser by returning, historians have discovered. Captain Robert Campbell, aged 29, was captured just weeks after Britain declared war on Germany in July, 1914.
Aug 31, 2022 · Kaiser Wilhelm II (above, inspecting his troops) granted the unusual request, but he did so on one condition: Captain Robert Campbell could leave to visit his dying mother, but would need to return to the camp after the trip.
