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Military service
Service number:
R/142311
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
15 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
January 20, 1920
Rouleau, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
December 3, 1941
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
June 26, 1943
At sea, off Haarlingen, Netherlands
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot E. Row 4. Grave 12.
Additional information
Son of Thomas John Campbell and Edna Alice Britton, of Zeilandia, Saskatchewan.
He got his basic training with the army, service number L-602122, under the 1940 National Resources Mobilization Act, number M-18511 of Notice of Call. Lost at sea on 26 June 1943, his body was washed ashore and found on 8 July 1943 in Haarlingen, Netherlands, where he was buried.
His two brothers also served overseas during the Second World War with the Royal Canadian Air Force; Frederick Campbell and S.J. Campbell. They both survived the war.
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Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands<P>Stirling aircraft BK 699 was airborne 2335 25Jun43 from Mildenhall. Shot down by a night-fighter, crashing 0221 into an area known locally as the Dantziggat, S of Ameland. Six of the crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, but Sgt Campbell's body was found 8Jul43 near Harlingen and is buried in the General Cemetery. (//lostbombers.co.uk) -
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Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands -
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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 Sergeant Donald Edward Campbell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant Donald Edward Campbell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Donald Edward Campbell
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Flight Sergeant Donald Edward Campbell
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Flight Sergeant Donald Edward Campbell
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Flight Sergeant Donald Edward Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Edward Campbell
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Flight Sergeant Donald Edward Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Edward Campbell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 143 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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