Headstone || Major Alexander Henry Campbell MACGREGOR Died 14/03/1915 aged 42 Regiment/Service: 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Son of the late Donald Macgregor (Lieut. Royal Naval Reserve), of Eaglehurst, Isle of Man, and Maria Jane Macgregor (nee Cullin). Served in the South African Campaign and subsequently with the Uganda Bn. of the King's African Rifles in British East Africa. Buried VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO.3, Belgium.

Studio portrait of John Henry Alexander in uniform

Article with annotations. || Lieutenant Colonel John Campbell D.S.O., (31 October 1876 – 21 May 1944) was awarded the V.C. for bravery at Ginchy on the 15th September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He led his men's attack, blowing a hunting horn, into and over the Sunken Road and beyond. Campbell was 39 years old, and a temporary Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, British Army, during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. Citation: On 15 September 1916 at Ginchy, France, during the Battle of the Somme, Lieutenant Colonel Campbell took personal command of the third line when the first two waves of his battalion had been decimated by machine-gun and rifle fire. He rallied his men and led them against the enemy machine-guns, capturing the guns and killing the personnel. Later in the day he again rallied the survivors of his battalion and led them through very heavy hostile fire. His personal gallantry and initiative at a very critical moment enabled the division to press on and capture objectives of the highest tactical importance.The attached account of his actions (like a huntsman marshalling his pack of hounds) was written by James Price Lloyd of the Welsh Regiment, who served with Military Intelligence. After the war, the government to destroyed all the archives relating to this propaganda (section MI 7b (1)). They were regarded as being too sensitive to risk being made public. Remarkably these documents have survived in the personal records of Captain Lloyd. Many of these papers are officially stamped, and one can trace the development of many individual articles from the notes based on an idea, to the pencil draft which is then followed by the hand-written submission and the typescript. The archive Tales of the VC comprises 94 individual accounts of the heroism that earned the highest award for valour, the Victoria Cross. These are recounted deferentially and economically, yet they still manage to move the reader. Date stamp: 21 February 1918.