Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain J. H. D. M. Campbell, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
1914-15 Star (Ft. S. Lt. J. H. D. M. Campbell, R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. H. D. M. Campbell, R.N.A.S.), the first and third with surface corrosion, thus nearly very fine or better (3) £200-250

John Henry Duncan Montgomery Campbell was born in Worcestershire in October 1892, the son of Major Henri Campbell, Royal Artillery, a direct descendant of the Campbells of Askomell, Argyllshire. Educated at Eton, he went out to Ceylon in 1912, where he worked as a tea and rubber planter.

Retuning to the U.K. soon after the outbreak of hostilities, he was commissioned in the Royal Naval Air Service as a Flight Sub. Lieutenant and took his aviator’s certificate in a Grahame-White Biplane at R.N.A.S. Eastbourne on 30 September 1915. Remaining employed at Eastbourne and Eastchurch for much of the intervening period, he qualified as an Armaments Officer in May 1916 and transferred to the “Wavy Navy” as a Sub. Lieutenant in the following month, in which capacity he served at Capel and Dunkirk in the period November 1916 to February 1918.

Appointed a Captain (Technical) in the newly established Royal Air Force in April 1918, he was employed in the Airship Department until the end of hostilities, and was placed on the Unemployed List in November 1919. Campbell, who settled at Binstead on the Isle of Wight in the 1920s, served in the Royal Observer Corps during the 1939-45 War and died in September 1968 ; sold with copied research.