CAMPBELL, Nigel Douglas
| Service Number: | 426774 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 July 1942, Brisbane Qld. |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 102 Squadron (RAF) |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Qld., 6 January 1923 |
| Home Town: | Glen Davis, Lithgow, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | East State School, Towoomba Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Clerk at National Oil Pty. Ltd. |
| Died: | Flying Battle, France, 29 June 1944, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Marissel French National Cemetery, Beauvais, France Grave 265, Marissel French National Cemetery, Beauvais, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Toowoomba Grammar School WW2 Honour Board, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW2, Toowoomba WW2 Roll of Honour Book, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial) |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 426774 | |
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| 20 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 426774, No. 102 Squadron (RAF), Brisbane Qld. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Walter Campbell and Jessie Campbell, of Toowoomba
Flight Sergeant Nigel Campbell was the Pilot and Captain of No. 102 (Ceylon) Squadron Halifax Bomber LW143 that failed to return to its base at Royal Air Force Station Pocklington in Yorkshire, after it was detailed to attack Blainville Sur Leau in France on 29th June 1944. The Air Ministry notified his father residing at 16 Margaret Street, Toowoomba, that he was missing presumably as the result of enemy action.
Subsequent enquiries revealed that the aircraft was shot down and it crashed near Lyons-La-Foret.
Flight Sergeant Nigel Douglas Campbell, elder son of Mrs J. Campbell, of 16 Margaret Street, Toowoomba, and the late Walter Campbell, who was killed over France on June 29th, 1944, at the age of 21 years, attended the School in 1937 and 1938, leaving to take a clerical position in Toowoomba and subsequently going to Sydney. After enlistment in July, 1942, he gained his wings at Bundaberg, proceeded to England in May, 1943, and, after operational training, was posted to 102 Halifax Squadron, R.A.F., with which squadron he took part in raids as captain of a Halifax bomber. On his last operation two of his crew made the supreme sacrifice with him and lie buried with him in the French National Military Cemetery, Marissel, Beauvais, France.
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