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Flight Sergeant Hugh Charles Campbell

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Flight Sergeant Hugh Charles Campbell Veteran

Birth
Galt, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Death
7 Mar 1942 (aged 25)
Saskatoon Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada
Burial
Cambridge, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada GPS-Latitude: 43.3638633, Longitude: -80.3281867
Plot
Lot 46. Range 20. Grave D.
Memorial ID
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From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial-
Military Service:-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: R/64351
Age: 25
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #4 Service Flying Training School (SFTS); RCAF Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

4 SFTS's Cessna Crane (RCAF 7657) aircraft was ferrying 4 students from Vanscoy, Saskatchewan to Saskatoon when, sadly, it crashed, taking the lives of the pilot and two students; the other two students were seriously injured.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RCAF Flight Sergeant Hugh Charles CAMPBELL,
RCAF Leading Aircraftman Benjamin Dean COOK and
RCAF Leading Aircraftman Hubert Vernol FORD.

A graduate student of Galt Collegiate, residing at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario, Canada [permanent address in Bond Street in Galt, Ontario], he enlisted in the RCAF on 24 June 1940 in Hamilton, Ontario.

Son of Dr. Thomas F. Campbell and Helen (née Glendenning) Campbell of Galt, Ontario, Canada.

Flight Sergeant Hugh Charles Campbell is commemorated on Page 62 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial-
Military Service:-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: R/64351
Age: 25
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #4 Service Flying Training School (SFTS); RCAF Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

4 SFTS's Cessna Crane (RCAF 7657) aircraft was ferrying 4 students from Vanscoy, Saskatchewan to Saskatoon when, sadly, it crashed, taking the lives of the pilot and two students; the other two students were seriously injured.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RCAF Flight Sergeant Hugh Charles CAMPBELL,
RCAF Leading Aircraftman Benjamin Dean COOK and
RCAF Leading Aircraftman Hubert Vernol FORD.

A graduate student of Galt Collegiate, residing at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario, Canada [permanent address in Bond Street in Galt, Ontario], he enlisted in the RCAF on 24 June 1940 in Hamilton, Ontario.

Son of Dr. Thomas F. Campbell and Helen (née Glendenning) Campbell of Galt, Ontario, Canada.

Flight Sergeant Hugh Charles Campbell is commemorated on Page 62 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Inscription

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OUR HUGH



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  • Created by: SJB Hearn
  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109501308/hugh_charles-campbell: accessed ), memorial page for Flight Sergeant Hugh Charles Campbell (25 Jan 1917–7 Mar 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 109501308, citing Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada; Maintained by SJB Hearn (contributor 46864594).