STILL WINNING
WON GRAND-NATIONAL 34 YEARS AGO Lieut.-General Sir David Campbell, Commander-in-Chief, Aldershot Command, who is 61, won the Military Drag Hunt’s Cup, at Aldershot, last month, against a field of officers about 25 years of age. The course was three and a-quarter miles, and the General raced neck and neck over the last mile with Lieut. G. S. Johnstone, Royal Artillery. They crossed the last fence together, but Sir David beat the lieutenant by a short head. In 1896, as a lieutenant of the 9th Lancers, General Campbell won the Irish National Hunt Cup at Punchestown, the Grand Military at Sandown, and the Grand National at Aintree. He is the last surviving officer who has won the National.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 977, 21 May 1930, Page 14
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119STILL WINNING Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 977, 21 May 1930, Page 14
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