LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Peter Mortimer CAMPBELL
Service No: 443868
Born: Sydney NSW, 25 October 1925
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 December 1943
Unit: Crew Conversion Unit (Fighter), RAAF Station Williamtown NSW
Died: Aircraft Accident (Crew Conversion Unit (Fighter) Mustang Aircraft A68-21), Wollar NSW, 6 November 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Newcastle (Sandgate) War Cemetery NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Charles Colin and Florence Muriel Campbell, of Manly
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 112, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall, Sandgate NSW
On 6 November 1944, Mustang A68-21 flown by Flight Sergeant Campbell crashed near Mudgee while on a low level cross-country flight and he was killed.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/7/1274; A9845, 125
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line