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Flying Officer Robert Roy Campbell

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Military service

Service number: J/22573
Age: 21
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 419 Sqdn.
Birth: October 7, 1922 Glengarry, Ontario
Enlistment: December 13, 1941 Regina, Saskatchewan
Death: May 13, 1944 Louvain, Belgium

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Coll. grave IV. AA. 1.
Additional information

Son of the Revd. Harvey Binkley Campbell and Grace M. Grant, of Montréal, Québec. Harvey was a Veteran of the First World War, service number 342968, he fought in France with the 2nd Canadian Heavy Battery, Canadian Field Artillery. Brother of Alexander Grant Campbell, service number J/85824, who served during the Second World War with the 576th squadron, RAF and was reported as missing in action near Cambrai, France, on 11 April 1944.

Robert Roy served as a cadet from 1940 to 1941, as a soldier from 15 September 1941 to 11 December 1941. With the Air force, he served in Canada and in England.

Additional citations

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

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 267 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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