Dr Ian Campbell, an "outstanding" senior public health official and physician, has died at the age 92.
Dr Ian Campbell, who enjoyed an impressive medical career, passed away on September 26 in Edinburgh.
Born in February, 1916, at Dornie, Kyle of Lochalsh, Ian Dugald Campbell was the youngest of John and Margaret Campbell's three children.
His
father's work as an agent for the Commercial Bank meant the family moved to Beauly in 1921 and then Dingwall in 1928.
Dr Campbell attended Dingwall Academy before studying pure science and then medicine from 1933-39 at Edinburgh University.
He graduated MB CHB in July 1939 and then returned north, hoping to fulfil his ambition of becoming a GP in the Highlands.
When the Second World War broke out, he applied to join the Royal Army Medical Corps, but was told sufficient recruits had already enlisted. He went on to work as a house officer, then resident medical officer, at St Luke's Hospital in Bradford.
His call-up papers arrived in 1941 and he spent a year in training before being selected for Special Services, preparing for D-Day in June 1944.
Dr Campbell landed on Juno Mike Red at Courseulles-sur-Mer with D Company Canadian Scottish and established a casualty evacuation point at the village hall in Graye-sur-Mer.
A fortnight later, the unit moved to the Château de Vaux at Graye-sur-Mer, where up to 1200 wounded were treated overnight.
He later handled casualties from the Battle of the Ardennes and treated former inmates of the Belsen concentration camp.
After being demobbed in 1946, Dr Campbell returned to St Luke's Hospital where he worked as medical superintendent at the birth of the NHS – in which he had a passionate belief.
From 1949, he was based in Harrogate, returning to Edinburgh in 1957 as deputy senior administrative
medical officer of the South Eastern Regional Hospital Board.
Dr Campbell's career in public health progressed and he was appointed senior administrative medical officer of the South Eastern Regional Hospital Board, then chief administrative medical officer of Lothian Health Board from 1973-80.
Between 1969 and 1975 he was involved with the World Health Organisation, participating in projects in Baroda, Gujarat State, Bangalore, Agra, New Delhi and Jakarta.
He was appointed honorary physician to the Queen in 1977.
In retirement he became treasurer of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Dr Derek Doyle, a friend of Dr Campbell, said: "He had an outstanding career and he was quite an outstanding man.
"He was very kind and he was an enormous help to fellow doctors, and nothing was ever too much trouble.
"He was a jovial man and very easy to get on with."
Away from work he enjoyed fishing, having caught his first sea trout at the age of three.
He also enjoyed shooting and played golf.
Dr Campbell was predeceased by his wife of 59 years, Joan, and is survived by a son and two daughters.
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