Name William Campbell Rank Lieutenant-general Service/branch British Army | Awards Order of the Bath Died September 22, 1933 Allegiance United Kingdom | |
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Commands held 3rd Brigade
5th Division
Southern Command
Western Command Battles/wars Second Boer War
World War I Battles and wars Second Boer War, World War I | ||
Lieutenant General Sir William Pitcairn Campbell, KCB (20 June 1856 – 22 September 1933) was a British Army General during World War I.
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Military career
William Campbell was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1875. He served in Sudan between 1884 and 1885. His battalion served in South Africa between 1899 and 1901, during the Second Boer War, and he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in command of the battalion on 25 January 1900.
He was then appointed Commander 3rd Brigade in 1904 and General Officer Commanding 5th Division in 1909. He moved on to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command from 1914 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Western Command from 1916; he retired in 1918.
In 1916, he was appointed Colonel of the Highland Light Infantry, succeeding General Sir Henry Hildyard.
Family
He married Edith Prothero and together they went on to have one daughter.