This memorial plaque has been added to the Popski’s Private Army Memorial in the Grove as a great honour to the man who started off the project with the help of many others from the families of PPA soldiers.

• Memorial Text
• Captain John Campbell MC & bar was the instigator of the PPA Memorial after chatting with Mike Colton at the Violette Szabo GC Museum, Wormelow many years ago.
• John and his troops captured many German soldiers as they were having breakfast in remote outposts in Italy during WW2. They then left with their prisoners without disturbing the food on the tables. This instilled a great fear in the enemy ranks.
• One night in November 1944 – it was Campbell’s 23rd birthday – he had only driven a few yards from the farmhouse where they were based when the wheel of his jeep was blown off by a mine.
• After an hour spent fitting on a spare, he travelled only another 100 yards before the vehicle struck another mine. Campbell went back to the farmhouse on foot. The following day, when he returned to repair the damage, he saw his footprint just one inch away from a third anti-personnel mine.
• John’s nickname after this and other incidents became “Bulldozer”.
• 1921-2015