Born at Thwaite, Norfolk.
Enlisted at Diss, Norfolk, into the 52nd Foot on the 3rd of November 1843. Regimental No. 1797.
Age: 17.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Labourer.
Transferred to the 8th Hussars on the 1st of August 1855.
From Private to Corporal: 12th of February 1850.
From Corporal to Sergeant: 19th of June 1854.
Appointed Hospital Sergeant on the 20th of October 1854.
From Hospital Sergeant to Duty Sergeant on the 2nd of July 1856.
Sent money from the Crimea to a Miss Mary Fentiman.
Appointed to Troop Sergeant Major on the 17th of September 1857.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Reduced to Sergeant on the 10th of August 1861.
Transferred to the 19th Hussars on the 1st of November 1863. Regimental No. 667.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal on the 24th of February 1886, with a gratuity of £10.
He was most probably a brother of 696, Private Edward Cammell, 8th Hussars (see his record) who died in the Crimea. The next of kin of Edward Cammell was shown as living at Thwaite, where David Cammell was born, and their respective ages on enlistment would support this.
Died at Meerut, India, on the 1st of February 1867.
The India Office records show him as being buried in the Catholic churchyard at Meerut on the 1st of February 1867 by the Revd. Father E. Varella. No cause of death was shown.