27 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca CAMPBELL, John Dixon “Jack” WWII John Campbell, also known as Jack, was born in Verity, Manitoba, a rural community near Kenton, Manitoba, in 1927. He grew up on the family farm, then went to work in the mines very young, and enlisted in 1942 in the army as a fifteen-year-old for World War II. His short-termed enlistment was in Manitoba, probably signing up in Flin Flon. He contracted Scarlet Fever, was hospitalized, and was discharged for medical reasons, as well as his true age was discovered. Jack married Betty McGinnis fromThe Pas, Manitoba. They raised a family of four sons and one daughter. Jack was killed in a mine at Esterhazy, Saskatchewan in 1966. Jack’s older brother Bill served with the artillery through Canada and Europe. CAMPBELL, John S. John was born in Inverness, Scotland on October 4, 1894. He served in Canada with the Veterans Guard of Canada being discharged on July 10, 1946. CAMPBELL, John T. WWII John was born in 1920 in The Pas, Manitoba, and enlisted in the Air Force in 1941 taking his pilot training in Regina, Saskatchewan, and Lethbridge, Alberta. He went overseas in 1941 and was based in England with the British Squadron #405. He was a pilot of a Halifax aircraft and his crew was made up of three British and five Canadians. They flew 25 successful operations, most were bombing raids over Dusseldorf, Essen, and Saarbrücken and other German cities. John was shot down over Germany on October 1, 1942, and it is believed that he was flying with another crew whose pilot had been killed. John is buried in the Kiel War Cemetery in Germany. His parents, Jack and Elsie, never did visit his grave. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion The Pas Branch 19.
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