Another casualty of the Italy campaign in 1943, William was serving as a front line stretcher bearer in the Royal Army Medical Corps.  His time in the army was probably quite an eventful one as it is highly likely that he had served with his unit throughout the 1942 Africa campaign and also through the Sicily beach landings, the place where Cyril Cammish met his death.

        William died in the next ‘hurdle’ for the Allies, the beach landings in Sicily where they were attempting to gain a footing onto the Italian mainland.  He was buried in Bari War Cemetery and it was only a matter of weeks after this date that Sicily finally surrendered to the Allied forces.

        He was the son of William and Thurza Campling and the husband of Nora.