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Military service
Service number:
R/95404
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
22 Operational Training Unit, RAF
Birth:
October 16, 1919
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
March 8, 1941
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
February 13, 1943
Mountford, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 4233.
Additional information
Son of Gilbert Ernest Campbell and Mary Eleanor Wightman, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Husband of Helen Bernice Anthony, of Winnipeg. Father of John Gilbert Campbell.
He served in Canada and in England. He had 678 days of service, including 110 overseas.
Additional citations
Defense Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Sergeant John Gilbert Campbell
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Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Grave Marker
Photo provided by The Commonwealth Roll of Honour Project. Volunteer Henry Drury -
Memorial
Sergeant John Gilbert Campbell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant John Gilbert Campbell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Group Photo
John & Helen Campbell Wedding Photograph -
Telegram
Telegraph informing my grandmother of her husbands death overseas. -
Newspaper clipping
Crash site of Wellington HF759 -
Letter
Letter from the Minister of National Defense for Air -
Funeral
Funeral Procession in Stratford-on-Avon. -
Funeral
Funeral Procession in Stratford-on-Avon Cemetery. -
Funeral
Funeral at Stratford-on-Avon Cemetery. -
Funeral
Funeral at Stratford-on-Avon Cemetery. -
Letter
Letter from Buckingham Palace. King George R.I.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gilbert Campbell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gilbert Campbell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gilbert Campbell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gilbert Campbell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Gilbert Campbell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 143 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CEMETERY Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Startford-Upon-Avon Cemetery contains 22 First World War burials, made mainly from the hospital at Clopton House. During the Second World War, there was a contingent of the Royal Canadian Air Force based at nearby Wellesboune Mountford and of the 137 Second World War burials (most of them forming a war graves plot), 97 are of Canadian airmen. The cemetery also contains 15 war graves of other nationalities.
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