Cumnock born Campbell Tanner was a bugler in the RSF, was wounded at the Battle of Loos and transferred to the HLI. He was missing in action on the 11th April 1917.
He worked at Highhouse Colliery.
He was the son of James Tanner and his wife Margaret McCartney, born at Tanyard Lane in Cumnock on 1st October 1889.
He is on Auchinleck War Memorial.
He is on the memorial in Cumnock St Andrew's Congegrational Church.
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| picture by Kevan Aitken |
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In July 2015 the Arras War Memorial was visited by relatives and a wreath placed in his honour.
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My father Campbell Tanner was his nephew and was named after him, which makes him my Great Uncle. I am told by my Aunt Ray that his mother always waited for his return, which never came RIP
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