Medals from the Rob Campbell Collection relating to Clevedon, Somerset
Rob Campbell (1947 - 2017)
Many collectors will remember Rob particularly for his passion for anything related to his home town of Clevedon in Somerset. This gave him the opportunity of finding a wide variety of medals ranging from the Nepal War 1814-16 to the present day, all with a connection to Clevedon. A doyen of the local community he was Chairman of the Civic Society, Treasurer of the local Royal British Legion, and Poppy Day Organiser, as well as author of numerous books on local history subjects.
Born in North Devon in August 1947, Rob joined the Royal Air Force as a Boy Entrant in 1963. He saw service in Aden, Bahrain, and Germany, receiving the General Service Medal with the clasp South Arabia. Following his discharge from the Royal Air Force in 1977 he moved to Clevedon in Somerset, taking up employment with the Post Office (later British Telecom) as a Telephone Engineer. Whilst visiting relatives in Sydney, Australia in 2015 he was very proud to be invited as a ‘veteran’ to march in the annual Anzac parade.
Rob ‘discovered’ medals on leaving the Royal Air Force, and with his family connections to Devon started collecting to the Devonshire Regiment. He joined the Orders and Medals Research Society in April 1982 and soon widened his collecting interest to recipients from the greater Bristol area, with a particular interest in the Royal Air Force for World War Two. He served on the OMRS Executive Committee from 2002 to 2013 in many capacities including Insurance, Enquiries, and Convention Organiser, and additionally ran the society table at the Yate medal fair for some years. In 2010 he was awarded the OMRS Distinguished Service Medal in recognition of his service to the society in general and to the executive committee.
Following Rob’s wishes and at the specific request of his widow Norma, his ‘Clevedon Collection’ is now offered for sale in memory of this true friend of the medal collecting fraternity. His ‘Devonshire Regiment’ and ‘West Country’ collections will be included in forthcoming DNW auctions. The photograph of Rob was taken during the European Phaleristic Societies’ annual convention in Dresden in the spring of 2016. He is sadly missed but would wish that his ‘friends from Clevedon’, now being offered in this sale, will give as much pleasure to their new custodians as they did for him.
Peter Helmore
Collection Information
This collection was sold on 5 December 2018.
Other Collections Sold in 2018
- Meritorious Service Medal Groups from the Collection of Ian McInnes
- A Good Group of Specimen Banknotes
- A Group of Banknotes of Iran, the Property of a Gentleman
- British Tokens from the Collection formed by the late Jeffrey Gardiner
- Banknotes of South Africa, the Property of a Gentleman
- A Collection of Gallantry Awards to the South Wales Borderers
- Anglo-Gallic Coins from the Collection of the late Tony Merson
- British Educational Award Medals from the Collection formed by the late T.H. Watts
- The Collection of Irish Ten-Shilling Notes, 1928-68, formed by the late Anthony Lenny
- The Collection of Yorkshire 17th Century Tokens formed by Christopher Street
- Coins and Medals of Malta, the Property of an Officer Brother of the Order of St John
- A Collection of Medals to the 3rd King’s Own Light Dragoons
- The McAlister and Bassage Family Medals
- A Collection of Medals to Second World War Casualties
- A Collection of Long Service Medals to the Essex Regiment formed by Ian Miller
- A Fine Collection of Cavalry Badges
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- The Personal Archive of Louis Osman, Goldsmith and Architect
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- A Collection of Police Medals
- A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to the Imperial Yeomanry
- A Collection of British Coins, the Property of a Gentleman
- The Collection of Irish Gunmoney formed by Barry Allen
- Irish Pennies of Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III from the Collection of O. Mac Conamhna
- The Collection of Lincolnshire 17th Century Tokens formed by Christopher Street
- A Collection of 18th Century Tokens and Medals, the Property of a Gentleman
- Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection
- A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to Colonial Units
- A Group of Pattern and Specimen Waterloo Medals
- A Collection of Indian Medals
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- Milled Coins of Elizabeth I from the Collection Formed by Walter Wilkinson
- The Collection of Greek Coins Formed by the Late Ray Inder
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- A Private Collection of Post Medieval Gold Jewellery Discovered in Jamaica, West Indies
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- A Collection of Queen’s and Khedive’s Sudan Medals
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- 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Iain Thomson
- The Michael Gietzelt Collection of British and Irish Milled Coins
- The Collection of British Tokens formed by the late Sven Gahlin
- A Collection of High Grade Gold Coins of the United States of America
- A Collection of Short Cross and Long Cross Pennies
- Medals from the Rob Campbell Collection relating to Clevedon, Somerset
- A Collection of Abyssinia Medals
- A Collection of Medals for the South Atlantic Campaign 1982
- The ‘Welsh Marches’ Collection of British Coins
- A Collection of British Milled Coins, the Property of a Gentleman
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