Kenneth Campbell was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
On 6 April1941 over Brest Harbour, France, Flying Officer Campbell attacked the German battle-cruiser Gneisenau. He ran the gauntlet of concentrated anti-aircraft fire and launched a torpedo at point-blank range. The ship was severely damaged below the waterline and was obliged to return to the dock whence she had come only the day before. Flying Officer Campbell's aircraft then met a withering wall of flak and crashed into the harbour.
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At a small ceremony in his home town of Saltcoats in Ayrshire on 6 April 2000, the 59th anniversary of his death at Brest, a memorial plaque and bench were unveiled by his sister in law, and his 90 year old brother handed over his VC to the safekeeping of the commanding officer of the present day 22 Squadron.
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Known to friends as Kenneth, Campbell spent nearly 60 years promoting auto racing, both as a partner to track owner Paul Sawyer in Richmond and as one of the public relations minds who helped turn NASCAR from a curiosity into a Southern staple.
During Campbell's more than five decades with Sawyer, a track that began as the half-mile Virginia State Fairgrounds dirt track was twice reinvented, lastly in 1988 into what is now the 105,000-seat, three-quarter-mile Richmond International Raceway.
Campbell, who retired in 2001, once organized a train trip to racing hotbed Darlington, S.C., taking government officials, civic leaders and fans from Richmond to impress upon them how fast NASCAR's popularity was growing elsewhere in the South.
KennethCampbell, who has died aged 92, was housing architect to the London county council and the Greater London council from 1960 to 1974, at a time when this prestigious office attracted the brightest young architects.
Born in Crofton Park, south London, the son of a Lloyd's insurance man, Campbell was educated at St Dunstan's school, Lewisham, after which he was articled to the firm where his uncle was a partner, WA Pite, which had designed King's College Hospital, London.
KennethCampbell was survived not only by three daughters as we said, but also his wife Frances.
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