Campbell, Vincent Daniel (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-November-09

Pilot Officer Vincent Daniel Campbell RCAF

Birth Date: 1923-February-01

Born: South Porcupine, Ontario

Parents: Daniel George Campbell & Margaret Alegra McMillan

Spouse:

Home: Ottawa, Ontario (parents)

Enlistment: Ottawa, Ontario

Enlistment Date: 1942-March-12

Service

RCAF

Unit

625 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
We Avenge

Base

RAF Waddington

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

J/95217
Prev: R/150386

Home

Ottawa, Ontario (parents)

Target

Wanne-Eickel Germany

Temporary Burial

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied

Final Burial

Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Plot 20 Row B Grave 9

Took off from Kelstern at 08:24 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code CF-A Bomber Command) on an operation to Wanne-Eickel Germany.

Aircraft shot down by flak at Herten Scherlebeck, two miles north of Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Killed includes Campbell: Flying Officer Edward John Brown RCAF J/37886 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. Plot 20. Row B. Grave 4. Flying Officer Allan Bruce RCAF J/27531 pilot KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. Plot 17. Row G. Grave 4. Flying Officer Lindsay Leonard Guthrie RCAF J/29986 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Plot 20. Row B. Grave 6. Pilot Officer Norman Gordon Marler RCAF J/95392 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Plot 20. Row B. Grave 14. Pilot Officer Earl Duncan Wilmot RCAF J/95499 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Plot 20. Row B. Grave 5. Pilot Officer Jack Holton RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Plot 20. Row B. Grave 7.

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