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VC1192 John Charles (Jock) Campbell
Name John Charles (Jock) Campbell No.
VC Issue No. 1192 Awards VC MC DSO & Bar
Regiment Royal Horse Artillery commanding 7th Armoured Division
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Artillery
Rank VC Won Acting Brigadier-General
Rank End Of Career Major-General
Place Of Birth Thurso, Highlands, Scotland
Place Of Death Near Halfaya Pass, Libya
Buried/Location Ashes Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Row K, Grave 171
Gazetted 3 February 1942
VC Presented 20 October 1942, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
P Memorial Seat, on Victoria Walk, Thurso, Highlands, Scotland
P Name on Memorial, Memorial Chapel, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Surrey
Memorial Plaque, All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo, Egypt
P Memorial Stone Seat, Sedbergh School, Cumbria
P Named on VC Memorial, Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, London
P Named on Honours Board, RMA Woolwich, now at RMA Sandhurst, Surrey
P Campbell Close, Weedon, Northamptonshire
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Royal Garrison Church, Larkhill, Wiltshire
P War Memorial, Flore, Northamptonshire
P Named on War Memorial, Miller Academy, Thurso, Caithness, Scotland
P Named on Honours Board, Bovington, Dorset
By The Way…
VC Held By
Royal Artillery Regiment Museum, Old Royal Military Academy, Red Lion Lane, Woolwich, London, England
BORN 10 January 1894
DIED 26 February 1942 AGE 48
VC Won 21 November 1941 AGE 47
Place VC Won Sidi Rezegh, Libya
War/Campaign Second World War
