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Military service
Service number:
J/18331
Age:
27
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
432 Sqdn.
Birth:
January 20, 1916
Bristol, Pontiac, Québec
Enlistment:
December 27, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
July 14, 1943
Florennes, Namur, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Row 4. Grave 45.
Additional information
Son of William David Campbell and Mary Jane Edey (alias Maynie). Husband of Christina Mary Smith, of Glasgow, Scotland, who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) as Corporal, service number 420248, RAF, during the Second World War. Brother of airmen Harper Arthur Campbell and Richard Edey Campbell, Royal Canadian Air Force; they survived the war.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, Defence Medal, General Service Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, Operational Wings.
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Pilot Officer William Clayton Campbell
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Pilot Officer William Clayton Campbell
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Clayton Campbell
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Pilot Officer William Clayton Campbell
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Pilot Officer William Clayton Campbell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 143 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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