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Military service
Service number:
J/35226
Age:
22
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
December 10, 1921
Broxburn, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Enlistment:
July 10, 1942
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
June 1, 1944
Shielin, Glen Isles, Scotland
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. F.F. Grave 45.
Additional information
Son of Andrew Campbell and Helen Smith Webster. Husband of Shirley Jean White. Nephew of James Webster, service number 40352, killed in on 12 October 1916, Robert Webster, service number 200824, killed in action on 20 September 1917 and Archibald Webster, service number 200825, killed in action on 12 October 1917, all three in France with the 12th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusilier, British Army.
Additional citations
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, Defence Medal, General Service Medal.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer William Campbell
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Memorial
Photo courtesy Tom Jenkins, Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland -
Memorial
Flying Officer William Campbell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer William 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 -
Other
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Notification of death
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Photo of WILLIAM CAMPBELL
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Campbell
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Campbell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 267 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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UPHALL CEMETERY West Lothian, United Kingdom
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