RETIRED ADMIRAL FOUND DRUNK
♦ ■ Q-SHIP COMMANDER SMALL FINE IMI'OSEI) x (Received April 22, 8.4 p.m.) LONDON, April 21. Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell. V.C.. M.P., pleaded guilty and was fined 10s Gd and costs in the Westminster Court on a charge of being incapably drunk. The police gave evidence that Admiral Campbell was found lying on a pavement at Knightsbridgr early in the morning. His solicitor said' he had had a sudden heart attack for which he had taken £ timid ants. i Vice-Admiral Campbell was in c'.i.rr,r;c of the mystery or Q-ships v. liic'ii were one of the ways adopted cVuring the war of combating ttic subjrr.nno menr.ee. He was mentioned i'i cVnTCilc'ncs. won the Victoria Cross. t'.io D'iu'.inguished Service Order and two br.iv. and the Croix de Guerre. I'iid fh" L.cv-'icn of Honour. After the ■-:::• he commanded the battle-cruiser Ti';-;- for three years, and was naval cirie-de-cf.mn to' the King for some in.--- i.'.v. tie retired in 1928 and in "if;.-;l we;; elected a member of Parliament, dcl'catin.'j; Mr Arthur Henderson. 1
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21146, 23 April 1934, Page 11
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