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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/15235
Age:
29
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
429 Sqdn.
Birth:
February 19, 1914
Vancouver, British Columbia
Enlistment:
June 19, 1940
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
March 3, 1943
at Sea, Frisian Islands, Netherlands
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 172.
Additional information
Son of Donald Wallace Campbell and Florence Lois Woods, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Shot down at sea, off Frisian Islands, Netherlands, by German night fighter planes, while on a water mining mission.
Additional citations
Operational Wings, 1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, Defence Medal, General Service Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medals and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 143 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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