page_title: John Vaughan Campbell
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: John Vaughan Campbell / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Brigadier General J V Campbell addressing troops of the 137th Brigade (46th Division) from the Riqueval Bridge over the St Quentin Canal.
context_page_description: Brigadier General John Vaughan Campbell, VC, CMG, DSO was a senior British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
context_section_description: In 1919 he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to King George V, a post held until he retired from the army in 1933, and was subsequently a member of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms until his death.
  In the Second World War he was an honorary flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from 1939 to 1940, then from 1941 until his death commanded the 8th Battalion Gloucestershire Home Guard. He died, aged sixty-seven, at his last home in Woodchester near Stroud, on 21 May 1944, and was cremated at Cheltenham.
  His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Guards Regimental Headquarters (Coldstream Guards RHQ) in Wellington Barracks, London.
caption: Campbell addressing troops of the 137th Brigade (46th Division) from the Riqueval Bridge over the St. Quentin Canal, 2 October 1918
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