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Flying Officer Donald Allister Campbell

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Military service

Service number: J/22215
Age: 25
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 106 Sqdn.
Birth: December 24, 1917 Malagawatch, Inversess, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: September 30, 1941 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death: July 28, 1943 Hamburg, Germany

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 173.
Additional information
Son of Alexander Campbell and Barbara Rebecca MacFayden, of Malagawatch, Inverness County, Nova Scotia.

Shot down on his second aerial combat mission. He had 634 days service, including 275 overseas.

Two of his brothers also served during the Second World War; Leading Aircraftman Gordon James Campbell, service number R-137791, Royal Canadian Air Force; and Private Laurence A. Campbell, service number F-58144, Royal Army Medical Corps, on board No. 2 Canadian Hospital Ship HMCS Letitia. Both survived the war.

Additional citations

Operational Wings, 1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 143 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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