Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War C.B.E. group of three awarded to M. Campbell Esq., Shipbuilder and Special Constable

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with full neck riband; Special Constabulary Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Mungo Campbell); Netherlands, Kingdom, Order of Orange-Nassau, Civil Division, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband and lapel rosette, in damaged case of issue, good very fine (3) £500-£700

C.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1946: Mungo Campbell Esq., Laterly Director, Ship Repair Division Ministry of Transport.

Mungo Campbell was born in 1900 in Eaglescliffe, Durham and was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He went into the family shipbuilding business and during the Second World War he was appointed Director of the Repairs and Salvage Division of the Ministry of Transport. For this service he was appointed C.B.E. June 1946. In January 1948 he was appointed a Commander of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau, ‘in recognition of services to Netherlands interests during the war.’

Campbell was President of the North-East Coast Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders and also chairman of the North of England Ship owners Association. He sold his shipping business in 1957 and was appointed a director of Barclays Bank. He used his fortune to form the Rothley Trust, establishing a girl's school at Westfield and in 1979 opened MEA House in Newcastle for local voluntary organisations. He married the playwright Esther McCracken in 1944 and after her death in 1976 married Betty Kirkpatrick. He died on 13 April 1983; in his will he left the majority of his fortune to charitable causes.

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