CAMPBELL, Joel Evans 1894 - 1942

CAMPBELL, KENNEDY, ARGABRIGHT

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:28

St. Louis "Post-Dispatch"
St. Louis, MO
Friday, May 15, 1942
Page 3A

14 FROM ST. LOUIS AREA IN NEW LIST OF NAVY MISSING
Other 30 Named in Compilation Had Previously Been Announced as Unreported in Action

PERIOD FROM DEC. 7 TO APRIL 15 COVERED

Earlier Lists Included 23 Navy Men Captured by Japanese, Seven Soldiers Killed.

Fourteen men from St. Louis and vicinity, not previously reported as casualties, were included in a list of 44 men from this district who are missing in action, issued by the Navy Department today. Names of the other 30 men have been published previously in the Post-Dispatch.

The Navy list, covering both Missouri and Illinois, is for the period from the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, to April 15, three weeks before the fall of Corregidor. Besides the men from St. Louis and vicinity, it names 68 other Missourians and 128 other residents of Illinois. This was the third list issued by the Navy since the policy of releasing official compilations has been in effect.

Earlier this month the Navy made public lists of wounded and killed, including 42 men from the St. Louis district killed and nine wounded, while the Army announced seven St. Louisians killed. In February the Navy announced _3 men of this district had been made prisoners in China, Wake and Guam. (note: number lost in the binding)

The 14 missing men from this district, not previously reported, are:

Clarence Nelson Buhlman, 21 years old, seaman, second class, son of Richard Sampson Buhlman, 606 Marsh avenue, Alton, last reported aboard the cruiser Houston, which was sunk off Java.

Joel Evans CAMPBELL, 45, carpenter's mate, second class, son of the late Mrs. Theodosia C. ARGABRIGHT of St. Louis, aboard aircraft carrier tender Langley, sunk in Indian Ocean. ...

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Note: There is a gravestone for Joel in Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, IA, which notes that he was a Carpenter's Mate 2nd Class (CM 2/c) who served in the U.S. Army in WWI. The rank of Carpenter's Mate is a Navy rank, however, which he held in WWII at the time he went missing. His gravestone also notes that he was lost on the Cruiser Langley, which was attacked and sunk in February, 1942. It isn't clear whether Joel was among the first casualties from the attack on February 27th, or a later casualty from attacks on the ships which rescued Langley's personnel. For this reason it is likely that his gravestone is a memorial marker and not an indicator of his final resting place. Joel was a son of Samuel M. and Theodosia (KENNEDY) CAMPBELL; Samuel died in 1929 and is buried in the same lot where Joel's stone is. Theodosia remarried to a Mr. ARGABRIGHT. She died in 1940 and is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, St. Louis, MO.

According to the "U.S., World War II Military Personnel Missing In Action or Lost At Sea, 1941-1946" records, Joel was reported as Missing In Action on March 1, 1942. The "U.S., Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945" records list his disposition as "Unrecoverable".

Many thanks to Mary Kate at the St. Louis Public Library for providing a copy of the above article regarding Joel.

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