Sources: Library and Archives Canada Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave

Name: Hugh Campbell Rank: Flying Officer Service Number: J/85420 Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, 226 RAF Squadron Date of Birth: November 12, 1922 Place of Birth: Big Bras d'Or, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: June 11, 1941 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Florence, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 18 Height: 5 feet, 4 inches Complexion: Medium Eye Colour: Green Hair Colour: Brown Occupation: None Marital Status: Single (at enlistment) Religion: United Next of Kin: David Campbell (Father), Florence, NS Date of Death: August 5, 1945 Age: 22 Cemetery: Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia Grave: Abray. Block 3. Plot 12. Lot 14 Commemorated on Page 501 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 25 Hugh Campbell was the son of David Malcom Campbell (1883-1972) and Mary Stephenson Campbell (1886- 1950), of Florence, Nova Scotia, and the husband of Frances ‘Fran’ Marie Dosie Campbell, of Vancouver, BC. His father was born in Scotland and his mother, in England. Hugh married Frances, the daughter of Lieutenant and Mrs. (E) Jack C. Dosie, on Easter Monday, April 2, 1945. His siblings were Malcolm Campbell 1907–), Edward Stephenson Campbell (1909-1952), Jean Johnston Campbell (b. 1913), David Campbell (1914-1998), Mary Campbell (1920-2006), and Joseph Campbell (1921-1991). His father served in France during the First World War, a Sergeant with the 15th Machine Gun Company, Service Number 415189, and was demobilized on March 25, 1919, in Halifax, NS. Hugh served in Canada and in England in the Royal Canadian Air Force, with 226 Squadron, Royal Air Force, from April 1, 1943, to March 6, 1944, and was repatriated to Canada be an instructor, until his death on August 5, 1945, in Mount Hope, Wentworth, Ontario. Hugh was assigned to the No. 5 Operational Training Unit (5 OTU) which was based in Boundary Bay, British Columbia, but he the location of his unit at the time his death was at the No. 1 Wireless School in Mount Hope. He was killed when a Harvard aircraft and Norseman aircraft collided.