Captain the Hon. John Campbell, D.S.O.

Captain The Hon. John Beresford Campbell, D.S.O., 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. He was killed in action in France, aged 48, on the 25th January 1915. He had been born in Westminster, London and was the eldest son of Hallyburton George Campbell, 3rd Baron Stratheden and Campbell and Louise Campbell, Lady Stratheden and Campbell. He was the husband of Alice Campbell of Hartrigge and Hunthill, Jedburgh whom he had married in London in 1895. ( His son Donald also fell see – above ). He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France. He had been commissioned into the Guards in 1887 and by 1901 he was a Captain in the Guards Reserve living in Moycullen, County Galway, Ireland. He re-joined his Battalion in November 1914 and won his Distinguished Service Order for ” gallantry in the operations at Givenchy 21st-12rd December 1914 when he handled his Company with great efficiency”. He fell in the action at La Bassee when the Germans exploded a mine near the Cuinchy Brickstacks and rushed the trenches held by the the Coldstream and Scots Guards. The front line trenches were overrun but the attack was eventually repulsed with the Battalion suffering 240 All Ranks casualties including 5 Officers and 13 Other Ranks killed.