Howard Campbell
| Full name | Howard Hindmarsh Campbell | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1921年11月10日)10 November 1921 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Machakos, Kenya Colony | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 23 February 2012(2012年02月23日) (aged 90) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Reading, England | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Oundle School | ||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Civil engineer | ||||||||||||||||
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Howard Hindmarsh Campbell (10 November 1921 — 23 February 2012) was a Scottish international rugby union player.
Campbell was born in Machakos, near Nairobi. His family were in Kenya through his Perthshire raised father's work as a civil engineer with the public works department. He boarded at Oundle School and attended the University of Cambridge.[1]
In World War II, Campbell served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. He was awarded a Military Cross for gallantry while taking part in the liberation of North Brabant in the Netherlands.[1]
Campbell, a prop, gained a blue for Cambridge University in the 1946 Varsity Match and the following year won the first of his four Scotland caps, debuting against Ireland at Murrayfield. He also played rugby for London Scottish.[2]
A civil engineer, Campbell lived in South Africa, Sri Lanka and South Africa while working for Shell.[2]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ a b "Death of Scots rugby cap and war hero Howard Campbell". The Scotsman . 29 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Howard Campbell". The Herald . 2 March 2012.
External links
[edit ]- Howard Campbell at ESPNscrum
- 1921 births
- 2012 deaths
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Rugby union props
- London Scottish F.C. players
- Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- People educated at Oundle School
- Royal Engineers officers
- British military personnel of World War II
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- British Kenya people