University and Military Service
Campbell attended the University of Queensland from 1940 with an interruption to his studies the following year to take up service in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). In his first year at the University of Queensland, Campbell became editor of the student paper Semper Floreat, before becoming President of the University of Queensland Union. He graduated in 1948 with first class honours in Law in 1948, having already gained a Master of Arts the previous year. He passed his pilot's examination at Amberley Air Base on 7 December 1941 and was assigned to the 67th Reserve Squadron of the RAAF, which patrolled Australia's eastern coast. He became a Flight Instructor and was based in Tasmania, badly injuring his knee in a biplane crash. After his recovery, the RAAF put Campbell in command of a Liberator Base in the Darling Downs.
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