Born on 17th April 1886 to Yorkshire born bricklayer Tom Campey and his wife Margaret (nee Lister) he was brought up with his siblings Joseph, Thomas, Elizabeth, Rhoda, Flora, Mark, Michael and Mabel Margaret living at 17 Hill Heads, Monkseaton. Just after his twenty fifth birthday in 1911 George arrived in New York, having crossed the Atlantic on the SS Campania and made for Chicago where he started his own business as a bricklayer.

On 14th October 1918 George crossed the border into Canada and enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Toronto where he was attached to the Canadian Engineers Training Depot as Sapper 2728103. His service was short lived and he was demobilised three months later at the end of January 1919 in Kingstown, Ontario.

Returning to the Chicago George moved to Oklahoma in the late 1920s where he married Zena Lee and had his own construction business. Divorced by the time of the 1940 US census, George became a naturalised citizen in 1942 and died two years later on 3rd July 1944.

George Campey is buried in Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma.

His brothers Joseph William, Michael and Tom also served in WW1

George Campey is remembered at Whitley Bay in W84.30