Misplaced Pages

Gunning Campbell

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Royal Marines general

Gunning Campbell
Born(1863-01-06)6 January 1863
East Indies
Died29 November 1920(1920-11-29) (aged 57)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchRoyal Marines
Years of service1880–1920
RankMajor General
CommandsAdjutant-General Royal Marines
Battles / warsMahdist War
First World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath

Major-General Gunning Morehead Campbell, CB (6 January 1863 – 29 November 1920) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines.

Military career

Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Campbell was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery on 1 September 1880. He took part in the Nile Expedition in 1884 and served as Inspector of Recruiting during the First World War. He went on to be Adjutant-General Royal Marines in July 1920 but died in office in November 1920. He was buried in Portsmouth (Highland Road) Cemetery.

References

  1. "No. 25213". The London Gazette. 20 March 1883. p. 1534.
  2. "General G. M. Campbell" (PDF). DNW Medals. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  3. "No. 29578". The London Gazette. 12 May 1916. p. 4696.
  4. "Senior Royal Navy appointments" (PDF). Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  5. "Major-General Gunning Morehead Campbell". Every man remembered. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
Military offices
Preceded bySir David Mercer Adjutant-General Royal Marines
July–November 1920 		Succeeded byHerbert Blumberg
Categories: