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Military service
Service number:
V/17138
Age:
21
Rank:
Leading Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.S. Quebec
Birth:
August 1, 1921
Hilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 8, 1940
London, Ontario
Death:
October 21, 1942
Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
11. G. 12.
Digital gallery of Leading Seaman Lloyd George Campbell
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Photo of Lloyd Campbell
Leading Seaman Campbell served aboard the Corvette HMCS Eyebright befrore joing Combined Operations at HMS Quebec, a training station near Inverary, Scotland. He was Coxswain on the plywood Higgins boat #R45 ordered to carry troops to Dieppe on August 19, 1942. He was seriously wounded in the upper legs, by heavy calibre machine guns during the raid and taken prisoner. He was given medical attention and endured amputation but died in Berlin, on October 21, 1942, age 21. -
Grave marker
The grave of Leading Seaman Lloyd George Campbell in the Berlin War Cemetery - Photographer A.J. Vine Commander Royal Australian Navy -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman Lloyd George Campbell
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman Lloyd George Campbell
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman Lloyd George Campbell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 62 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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