Fl Lt
Gillian
Lorne
Campbell
DFC RAFVR
Born in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies
Ancestors 
Brother of
Frances Henriette (Campbell) Campbell-Walter, Charles Duncan MacNair (Campbell) Campbell of Airds and Bromley Bt, Sheila Maclaine Campbell, Rosemary Jean (Campbell) Hansard BEM OStJ, Alexander Niall Diarmid Campbell and Elspeth Ada Campbell
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 22
in Romsey, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Profile last modified
| Created 9 May 2020
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Biography
Gillian was born in 1920. He was the youngest son of Edward Taswell Campbell of Airds and Bromley and Edith Jane Warren. He died while flight testing a Spitfire Mk 9 BS139 over Hampshire in dense fog.
Sources
- birth: Burgerlijke stand Nederlands-Indië [Civil registration Dutch East Indies], RA jaar/bladzij 1921/114
- death:
- England death Q4 1942 Romsey Vol2c p102 22y
- Death notice, The Times (London) December 28 1942: "CAMPBELL - In Dec 1942, on active service, FLIGHT LIEUTENANT GILLIAN LORNE CAMPBELL, DFC, son of Sir Edward Campbell MP and Lady Campbell, of Bromley, Kent"
- Buried Durrington Cemetery, Wiltshire Gve 758
- Military Service: Flight Lieutenant (Pilot), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Service No.81680. Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate 18849, 26 June 1939; DFC gazetted 30th January 1942.
- See also The Airmen's Stories, the Battle of Britain Monument
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Categories: Killed in Action, United Kingdom, World War II | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve | Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)