Wounded In Normandy
L/Cpl V.A. Campbell
Service No.
14000102
Company:
Unknown
Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No).
General Service Corps
Date Wounded:
Sunday, 06 August 1944
Details of wounds - (Based on War Diary etc.)
Possibly wounded in attack around Montisanger/Le Pissot area
Victor Andrew Campbell was born in 1923 in Keith, Scotland.
"Lt King, our platoon officer, produced an aerial photograph which showed a group of houses clustered around a t-junction at the entrance to Troarn. A patrol of three men would be led by Lt King to recce this junction. We looked at each other with something akin to dismay and wondered whether we would survive." Page 80, Monty's Ironsides by Patrick Delaforce. *Lt Kenneth King was wounded at Troarn - his wounded page is here
He was discharged from the Army in December 1946 and was living in Ayr, Scotland at that time.
He married Norma Edith B Leslie in 1954, in Monifieth.
Victor died in 2002 at the age of 78.
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