In 1901, Campbell Munro was 4 years old and living at 1 Keir Villa, Kinnoull, with his father William Munro, a Joiner, and his mother Catherine Munro, both aged 41. He also had a sister Annette, aged 11, a sister Jane, aged 9 and a brother William, aged 2.

Campbell was educated at Perth Academy, and was employed as a Bank Clerk when he enlisted in Edinburgh with the 16th Royal Scots (McCrae’s Battallion), on 4th December 1914. He embarked from Southampton to France on 8th January 1916.

Campbell Munro was listed as missing in the casualty list of 22nd August 1916, and listed as killed in the casualty list of 9th March 1917. He was originally buried about 500m south west of Contalmaison, before being re-buried at Longueval.

Extract from “McCRAE’S BATTALION, THE STORY OF THE 16th ROYAL SCOTS” by Jack Alexander

“On 15 June McCrae’s marched up to the village of Dernancourt, three miles south of Albert...When they went into the line this time, they would occupy the trenches to the south of the road...Next evening McCrae’s relieved the Provost’s Battalion in the right sector of the front line."

"The following night the battalion was preparing for relief, when a bombardment opened up on the support line. Most of A Company were sheltering in deep dug-outs."

"Fred Bland, a chromo-lithographer from Montgomery Street, Edinburgh, was sitting beside his best pal, Campbell Munro, when a blast of shrapnel came down from the entrance."

"Fred, who had just celebrated his 24th birthday, was killed at once; Munro was untouched. ’It was decreed,’ he wrote, ’that we should be together at the last.’ He was nineteen and had eight more days to live.”

While there is no definitive record of how and when Campbell Munro lost his life, the battle dates suggest that he was killed during the first day of the Battle of the Somme, which began on 1st July 1916.

Largely composed of professional and amateur sportsmen, "McCrae's" was the first so-called 'footballers' Pals Battalions to be raised during the war. 16 players from Heart of Midlothian F.C. enlisted, along with 500 supporters and season ticket-holders.

In addition to the Hearts contingent, players and followers of Hibernian, Raith Rovers, Falkirk, Dunfermline Athletic, East Fife and St Bernard's also enlisted. The unit was named after its charismatic colonel, Sir George McCrae, a former Liberal MP for Edinburgh East.

Shortly after the publication of a book on the history of the battalion by Jack Alexander a memorial cairn was constructed in the village of Contalmaison on the Somme.