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Flying Officer William Ronald Campbell

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Military service

Service number: J/14109
Age: 22
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 442 Sqdn.
Birth: July 25, 1922 Vancouver, British Columbia
Enlistment: September 16, 1941 British Columbia
Death: August 1, 1944 Caen, Normandy, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. E. 3.
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Son of James Hamilton Campbell and Florence Gertrude Angell, of Vancouver, British Columbia. James Hamilton served in France and was wounded in action on 24 October 1916 during the First World War, while serving with the 47th Battalion, CEF, service number 180966. William Ronald’s brother, Roy James Godfrey Campbell, served with the Royal Canadian Air Force and survived the war.

William Ronald served in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island, Alaska, British Columbia, England and in France. He had 1,035 days of service, including 421 overseas.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 267 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

Banneville-la-Campagne is a village of Normandy, in the Department of the Calvados, some 10 kilometres east of Caen on the road towards Pont Audemer and Pont l'Eveque. The BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY is some 450 metres west of the village, on the south side of the road to Caen, and about 110 metres from the road.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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