Donald Campbell
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Donald was born in Jamaica in 1951 where he lived until he was 13, witnessing the island`s independence celebrations in 1962. He was educated to admire England as the Mother Country. Donald migrated to Britain in 1965 to join his parents in Birmingham and remembers the novelty of seeing snow and experiencing bitter cold for the first time. On leaving a local school with no qualifications (little was expected of him as a black pupil) Donald joined the RAF at 18 with a desire to travel. He served in Northern Ireland, Britain itself, Madagascar, Oman, the Falkland Islands and Germany, also visiting some other NATO countries.
Like some other black veterans, Donald suffered delayed promotion and from racism. However, he found that the RAF was “for me was more than expected”.
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