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Brigadier-General
John Vaughn Campbell VC ONE of Oswestry’s most famous recipients of the highest military honour for bravery was John Vaughan Campbell. As Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Battalion Coldstream Guards, Mr Campbell, of Broom Hall, was honoured with a Victoria Cross in recognition for “most conspicuous bravery and able leading in an attack”. His achievements, of which the Victoria Cross was just one of many are recorded locally in Oswestry Museum |