| Surname: | Campbell |
| Initials: | F |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 393 |
| Notes: | MMP. Enlisted Royal Field Artillery, 16/5/96 transferred to MMP. Frederick Campbell. Extract from the Salisbury Times 15 March 1907. Thomas Bujrke, and ill-dressed, elderly man, with a huge tangle of long grey hair, was brought up in custody and charged with being found in possession of military stores, viz, a pair of regimental trousers and cap, the property of his Majesty's Secretary of State for War. He stated that his trousers were torn and when at Tidworth Camp a soldier gave him a pair. Lance Corporal Campbell, of the Military Mounted Police, stationed at Bulford Camp, stated that on March 5th he was in the Royal Engineers' lines and saw the defendant begging. He arrested him and found that he was wearing a pair of military trousers and a soldier's cap belonging to a man in the Border Regiment, which was stationed at Tidworth. The trousers were not out of issue, having only been worn for six months instead of the regulation time, twelve months. P.C. King, of Bulford, stated that when he charged the defendant he replied that he had the trousers given him at Tidworth. Answering the Chairman, a sergeant in the Military Mounted Police stated that they had not traced the man in the Border Regiment to whom the trousers and cap belonged. The Bench imposed a fine of 10s or in default seven days imprisonment. Defendant made a statement to the effect that he was owed a sum of £19 and asked if the magistrates could recover it for him and deduct the fine. The Chairman intimated that the magistrates could no do that an Burke was taken to prison. |