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Met Office adds: Born 6 August 1915 died 19 February 1943. Campbell was commissioned as a Pilot Officer into the RAFVR (Meteorological Branch) during August 1939. Having completed the first training course at the Meteorological Office Training School in Berkeley Square, London he served at a number of air fields in the UK and France. In May 1941 Campbell was posted to the Central Landing School at RAF Ringway where he studied the meteorological problems of Army airborne operations and after acting as the RAF’s liaison meteorologist for Operation BITING (the raid to acquire key items from a German radar installation at Bruneval on the French coast) he took post as the Senior Meteorological Officer of HQ Wing at RAF Netheravon. He continued researching into the meteorological aspects of airborne operations and particularly the effect of visibility and it was to further this research that he was included in the crew of a Halifax bomber of 295 Squadron taking part in a raid against an electricity transformer at Distre in northwest France which had been incorrectly labelled as lightly defended. Two of the twelve aircraft failed to return including Campbell’s.