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VC753 John Vaughan Campbell
Name John Vaughan Campbell No.
VC Issue No. 753 Awards VC CMG DSO
Regiment Coldstream Guards commanding 3rd Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Temporary Lieutenant Colonel
Rank End Of Career Brigadier General
Place Of Birth London, England
Place Of Death At his home, 'Benwell House', Woodchester, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Strewn into the River Findhorn from the Banchor Bridge, Drynachan on the Cawdor Estate, Highlands, Scotland
Cremated Cheltenham Crematorium, Bouncers Lane, Gloucestershire, England
Date Buried/Cremated 24 May 1944
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 26 October 1916
VC Presented 14 November 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Memorial, Cawdor Parish Church, Near Nairn, Highland Region, Scotland
P Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire
By The Way…
His Father was killed at Hlobane Mountain, during the Zulu War
VC Held By
Coldstream Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England
BORN 31 October 1876
DIED 21 May 1944 AGE 67
VC Won 15 September 1916 AGE 39
Place VC Won Ginchy, Somme, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
