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VC776   Gordon Campbell

Name   Gordon Campbell   No.      

VC Issue No.   776   Awards   VC   DSO & 2 Bars

Regiment   Royal Navy

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Commander

Rank End Of Career   Vice Admiral

Place Of Birth   Croydon, Surrey, England

Place Of Death   Isleworth, Middlesex, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Parish Church of Crondall & Ewshott, All Saint's Churchyard, Crondall, Hampshire, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   21 April 1917

VC Presented   7 March 1917, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Parish Church of Crondall & Ewshott, All Saint's Churchyard, Crondall, Hampshire, England

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial Plaque, Hounslow Civic Centre, West London

Portrait & replica Binnacle at Dulwich College, London

Ensign used on all 3 of Campbell's 'Mystery Ships',  Devonport Naval Barracks Church, Devon

P  Campbell Road, Plymouth, Devon

By The Way…

After the sinking of UC29, two VC's were awarded (by ballot), one to an officer and one to a ordinary seaman. Campbell's officers expressed their wish that he be the officer recipient, he declined the chance of a VC & bar

VC Held By

Dulwich College, College Road, Dulwich Common, London, England

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BORN   6 January 1886

DIED   3 July 1953   AGE   67

VC Won   17 February 1917   AGE   31

Place VC Won   North Atlantic Ocean, HMS ‘Q5’

War/Campaign   First World War 1917

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