Norman B. Campbell . United States Army from North Fayette Twp., Pa Norman Campbell was my great uncle. I, unfortunately, don't have a lot of information regarding his military service, however, I do know he was taken as a POW in December of 1944 in Germany and was held until the end of the war in Stalag 4B, Muhlberg Saschen. If anyone has any photos or information regarding him, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Patrick " " Campbell . from Londonderry
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Pte. Patrick Campbell . British Army 13th Btn. Kings Liverpool Regiment from Huyton, Liverpool (d.7th Oct 1943) My great uncle Pat Campbell fought in Burma with the 13th Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment, but unfortunately he was captured by the Japanese and ended his days in a prison camp. He died 7th of October 1943 aged 23.
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Lt Patrick Archibald Tomlin William Betts Campbell . British Army 6th Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) (d.9th May 1945)
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W/O Paul Brewer Campbell . Royal Canadian Air Force 415 Sqdn. from New Brunswick, Canada (d.18th February 1943) Hampden AE 435 "U" (415) crash Docking
This Hampden was based at Thorney Island (east of Portsmouth, Hampshire) serving in No. 415 Squadron RCAF in Coastal Command. At the time of its loss, it was operating out of the Coastal Command airfield at RAF Docking. The Hampden took off at 2030 hours on 18th February 1943 for an operation against German shipping off Iymuiden, Holland. It immediately crashed on take-off near to Docking railway station. There were no survivors from the crew of four and they were buried in St Mary's Church Cemetery, Great Bircham, Norfolk, a short distance from RAF Docking. The aircraft was acting as a torpedo bomber in its Coastal Command anti-shipping role, and the area was quickly evacuated because it had an unexploded torpedo on board. The crew were:
W/O2 (Warrant Officer Grade 2) P.B. Campbell, Pilot, RCAF
Flying Officer K. R. Maffre, Observer, RCAF
W/O2 R.E. Vokey, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, RCAF
W/O2 Z.M. Niblock, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, RCAF.
Hampden AE 435 was one of a batch of 425 B1 aircraft manufactured by English Electric Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire and would have been converted to a TB1 (Torpedo Bomber) for use within Coastal Command when the squadron converted to Hampdens in January 1942. As a B1 aircraft it may have seen service operationally with a Bomber Command squadron.
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R Campbell . British Army Reconnaissance Corps R Campbell served with the Reconnaissance Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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F/O Robert Roy Campbell . Royal Canadian Air Force nav. 419 Sqd. from Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. (d.13th May 1944)
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Fus. Robert Campbell . British Army Royal Northumberland Fusiliers from Middlestone Moor, Spennymoor, Co Durham My dad, Bob Campbell enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers at Durham on 22nd of September 1924 aged 23. The following is from his Army Service Book/Record.
He was in France & a POW in Stalag XXB 11th of September 1939 to 30th of April 1945, 5 yrs 232 days. He came back to England 1st of May 1945 to
6th of October 1946, being in Sherburn Hospital for a long time.
He had been subject to forced dock labour. I was only months old, he saw me before going away I didn't see him until I was 7yrs old, he died in 1959 I was 20. My sister is 6 yrs older than me and she remembered him, she has a letter from him which I only saw a few years ago; it reads:
France
Miss Patsy Campbell
Dear Patsy & Peter, I am very glad to hear you are both getting better if it only keeps fine for you to get out in the fresh air a little bit. Is he still rough and fighting with you Patsy, It is very cold here freezing very hard but the little ones don't sledge here like at home, some men came back and said there was a lot of snow but you don't go to school till you are properly better. Patsy love can your big brother toddle yet you will have to hide your toys will you nice to mammy and ask her to put one or two razor blades in a letter now and again they are not very good what we get here, and nows dears I'll say cheerio hoping you are both champion now.
With Lots of Love and tons of XXXX from your Daddy XXXX
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Fus. Robert "Buff" Campbell . British Army Northumberland Fusiliers from 36 Albion Street, Middlestone Moor Robert Campbell enlisted at Durhamon the 22nd of September 1924. During his Service with the Colours, he served in
Germany, India, China and the UK. He was transferred to the
Army Reserve in 1932 and called up at the outbreak of the Second World War.
He was in northern France as part of the BEF and captured at the time of the Dunkirk evacuation. A telegram informed my mother that he was missing, presumed killed in action. I don't know how much later but another telegram stated he was alive and was a POW. Eventually my mother was informed he was in Stalag XXB. He was put on forced labour at the docks.
When he was brought back to England he was in Sherburn Hospital for a long time before being allowed home for a day or two then returning to hospital, this carried on for a while. He suffered mood changes and dark quiet periods which I couldn't understand then but do now.
He died in 1959.
I have a few happy memories of being up on his shoulders watching the banners and bands at Durham Big Meeting and going with him to visit his sister. I've missed him and loved him more as I've aged.
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Flt.Sgt. Robert Hugh Campbell . Royal Australian Air Force 102 (Ceylon) Squadron from Sydney, Australia (d.12th November 1943) My Uncle Robert Campbell was 25 years old when he and his crew were laying mines off the Frisian Islands when they were shot down by a flak ship.
Bobby was an Australian who was a young man working on an enormous cattle station in Queensland named Wave Hill as a jackaroo, he decided that he wanted to join up and train to be a pilot.
His journey from the top of Australia to Melbourne at the bottom was in the newspaper at the time.
His initial training was at Mascot in Sydney and his first trainer was a relative of Charles Kingsford Smith, a famous Australian airman. Sydney airport is named after him. Like most Australians Bobby was sent to Aylmer in Ontario for the next part of his training. He was then sent to England and learnt to fly Halifax bombers. He was a beautiful boy, a bit of a devil I think.
I am lucky to have all his letters to his mother firstly from the cattle station, then from his days in Canada and England. It is fascinating to see him growing in maturity from a 16 year old boy to a 25 year old man. I have had them preserved. The saddest letter is his mother’s last letter to him which was returned to her. It is hard for us to imagine the horror for her of receiving that letter back.
My grandmother kept in touch with the mothers of the other boys in his crew and for many years sent parcels to them as times were hard after the war in England. One of the mothers sent her the poem of They shall grow not old, in a lovely picture frame in her own hand writing with drawings surrounding it including a little plane. I am lucky to have that as well.
I don’t know anything about those other boys but their names:
- JC Arrowsmith Sgt.
- LD Dingley FO
- AG Dyson F/Sgt
- C Healey Sgt
- F Thrall
- Sgt LG Yorke Sgt
I honour them and their families.
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P/O Russell Archibald Campbell . RCAF flight eng. 419 Sqd. from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada (d.10th Oct 1944)
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P/O Russell Archibald Campbell . Royal Air Force 419 Sqd. (d.10th Oct 1944)
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RW Campbell . British Army RW Campbell served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt S E Campbell . RCAF 408 Sqd.
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2nd Lt. Samuel Warren Campbell . United States Army M Coy. 424th Infantry Regiment from Canton, Ohio (d.27th Dec 1944) 2Lt. Sam Campbell was a forward artillery observer stationed near Winterspelt, Germany in December 1944. He was taken prisoner in the opening hours of the Ardennes Offensive, the Battle of the Bulge and was transported to Stalag XII-A by rail car. He was wounded in the 22nd-23rd of December 1944 (reported dates vary) friendly fire incident in which RAF Mosquito bombers mistakenly bombed the camp. He was reported to have died on 27th of December 1944.
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SC Campbell . British Army Royal Armoured Corps SC Campbell served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Pvt. Teddy Carroll Campbell . United States Army Air Corps from California POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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F/O. Thomas Marnoch Campbell . Royal Canadian Air Force 426 Sqd. from Calgary, Alberta (d.5th Mar 1945) My relative, F/O Thomas M Campbell was the bomb aimer of the ill fated Halifax bomber from 426 Squadron, Thunderbirds LW210 OW-Y flown by Ft Lt Emerson, which crashed shortly after take off from RAF Linton on 5th March 1945. Thomas died in the crash, but I have no photo of him, the aircraft or the crash site. Does anyone have a photograph? Any pictures would be of great help to me. Thank you.
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PO Thomas Campbell . Royal Navy HMS Malvernian Thomas Campbell was held POW in Marlag und Milag Nord and Stalag 8B.
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PO. Thomas Campbell . Royal Navy HMS Malvernian My father Petty Officer Thomas Campbell, served on HMS Malvernian which was dive-bombed in the Bay of Biscay while on contraband patrol in 1940. He was held in Marlug und Milag Nord and Stalag 8B.
Does anyone have details of the march away from the Russians through Czechoslovakia at the end of the war? Dad was released by the Americans on his birthday, 29th April 1945, I think near Regensburg. Can anyone confirm?
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Cpl. Utah Albert Campbell . United States Army Hq 3rd Bn 59th CA Regt. Coast Artillery Corps
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WC Campbell . British Army WC Campbell served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Cpl. William James Campbell . British Army
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Stok1. William Henry Campbell . Royal Navy HMS Renown from Belfast Recently I found out that my father, William Campbell served as Stoker on HMS Renown from August 1939 to June 1943. I am trying to trace further information. I understand he boxed for the Navy during his 13 years service
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Pte. Thomas William Campbell, . Australian Army 27th Ind. Bde. Gp. Workshop 8th Australian Division from Melbourne, Australia Thomas William Campbell, Private VX35306, served with the 27th Independent Brigade Group Workshop, 8th Australian Division, Second Australian Imperial Force during World War Two and was held at the POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan.
He was born on the 27th April 1905 in Mount Somers, New Zealand, and his mother was Louisa Gordon, father unknown.
Notification of his imprisonment was sent to Mrs Flora Isabella Campbell, 47 Albion Street, East Brunswick, Melbourne.
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Sgt Douglas Noel Campbell. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.12th Jun 1943) Bomb aimer Douglas Campbell was killed on 12th June 1943 in Lancaster ED357 PH-S of 12sqd.
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Ian Campell . Auxiliary Fire Service Horsham (d.1940)
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WO Eric Bertram Campion . Royal Air Force 218 Squadron from London
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Tpr. John William "Jack" Campion . British Army 15th/19th A Sqn. King's Royal Hussars from Tadcaster John Campion served with the 15/19th Kings Royal Hussars in WW2. He was captured and held prisoner at Stalag XXID from May 1940 to June/July 1944, before being transferred to Stalag 344, Lamsdorf, Silesia.
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Sgt. Ronald Edward Campion . British Army A Sqd.40th(Kings)Btn. Royal Tank Regiment from Liverpool (d.6th April 1943) Ronald Edward Campion was the father I never knew. I was born 6th December 1942 by which time he was in North Africa with his Regiment.He was a Sergeant (Tank Commander) in 'A' Squadron 40th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment. He died on the morning of 6th April 1943 at the start of the battle of Wadi Akarit. Whilst I have visited his grave in Sfax and walked the battlefield where he died, I have no knowledge of how or why he died.
It is said that his tank was hit be a H E shell and he died of concussion but I would dearly love to know more. Is there anyone out there who can help? I have read the Regiment war diaries but whilst the battle on the 6th April is mentioned his name does not appear; possibly because he was only an 'other ranker' not an officer.This year is the 75th Anniversary of his death and I am getting no younger. My mother never spoke about him; they were childhood sweethearts and she felt his loss so much. War is a terrible thing.....there are no winners only losers as I and others well know.
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