Name: Michael Francis Campbell Rank: Private First Class Service Number: 18977107 Service: Company B, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army, Vietnam (USARV) Awards: Bronze Star (merit), Silver Star Medal, Purple Heart, Good Conduct, National Defense Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal Date of Birth: April 8, 1942 Place of Birth: Sydney, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: Unknown Date of Death: April 26, 1968 Age at Death: 26 Cemetery: Greenwood Cemetery, Port Alberni, British Columbia Grave: Plot Section U, Row 10, Grave 39 Remembered on Panel 52E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC Remembered on the Canadian Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Windsor, Ontario Michael Francis Campbell was the son of Ronald Francis Campbell (1921-1997), and Josephine (Robertson) Campbell (1923-1963), who predeceased her son. He was the brother of Cora Anne Campbell (1944-1997), Helen Theresa Murray (1950-2010), Dolores, Joan, Patricia, Robert, Joseph, Terry, and Ronald. Michael attended Sacred Heart and Park Junior High Schools and was a member of No. 6 Medical Company in Sydney, Cape Breton. At the age of seventeen, he left Cape Breton Island for a forestry job in Port Alberni, British Columbia. While working in Port Alberni, he met his wife, Vicky, and later enlisted in the US Army. Michael served with Company ‘B’ 2nd Battalion of the 327th Infantry Regiment; a unit of the 101st Airborne Division in the US Army. With orders for Vietnam, Michael began his tour of duty in the war zone on January 21, 1968. On April 26, 1968, during a search and destroy operation in Northern Quang Tri Province, PFC Michael Francis Campbell was hit and killed by enemy rifle fire. Michael Campbell is interred at the Greenwood Cemetery in Port Alberni, British Columbia. A plaque above his grave marker is inscribed: IN HONOUR OF MICHAEL F. CAMPBELL K.I.A. VIETNAM APRIL 26, 1968 AND THE 58, 200 MEN AND WOMEN WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, THEIR LIVES. COMMEMORATED ON NOVEMBER 11, 1992, BY THE VIETNAM VETERANS IN CANADA & 101ST AIRBORNE U.S. ARMY

Michael Francis Campbell

Sources: findagrave – Greenwood Cemetery uswarmemorial.org The VirtualWall.org The Wall of Faces by the Vietnam War Memorial Fund