Years of service 1890 - 1937 Rank General Service/branch British Army | Died June 18, 1944 Name Archibald Cameron Allegiance United Kingdom | |
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Commands held 4th Division
Scottish Command Battles/wars Second Boer War
First World War Awards Order of the British Empire, Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George Battles and wars Second Boer War, World War I | ||
General Sir Archibald Rice Cameron of Locheil (28 August 1870 – 18 June 1944) was a British Army General during the 1930s.
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Military career
Educated at Haileybury College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Arichibald Cameron was commissioned into the Black Watch in 1890 and saw service in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902. He was Military Secretary to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope from 1904 to 1907.
He served in the First World War and was wounded in action in 1917. In 1922 he became General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.
In 1925 he was appointed Director of Staff Duties at the War Office moving on to be General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1927, a post he held until 1931. He was appoined General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Scottish Command in 1933 and in 1936 also became Governor of Edinburgh Castle; he retired in 1937.
Family
Archibald Cameron never married.