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VC627   Frederick William Campbell

BORN   15 June 1867

DIED   19 June 1915   AGE   48

VC Won   15 June 1915   AGE   48

Place VC Won   Givenchy, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1915

Name   Frederick William Campbell   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   627   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Canadian Expeditionary Force, Western Ontario Regiment, 1st Battalion, No. 2 Company

Later   

Now   Disbanded

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Mount Forest, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada

Place Of Death   No.7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Cimetiere de l'Est (Boulogne Eastern Cemetery), 1 Place Godefroy, 62200 Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Plot II, Row A, Grave 24

Gazetted   23 August 1915

VC Presented   Registered post to Canada on the 28 August 1915 and then forwarded to his widow, Margaret Annie

Memorials

P  Headstone, Cimetiere de l'Est (Boulogne Eastern Cemetery), 1 Place Godefroy, 62200 Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas de Calais, France

Plaque at Royal Canadian Legion Hall, Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada

Machine-gun wheel from Boer War at Citadel Museum, Quebec, Canada (damaged by shell-fire Campbell repaired the wheel using a table leg as an improvised spoke)

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, 80 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


By The Way…

He won the VC on his 48th Birthday


VC Held By

Unknown

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