On this day in history - 19th August

On 19 August 1884, Douglas Campbell Douglas was born

Brig Gen Douglas Campbell Douglas (1854-1927) was the 20th Laird of Mains

He was given the name of Douglas Campbell at birth. On 23 June 1925 his name was legally changed to Douglas Campbell Douglas of Mains on inheriting estate from his uncle, Archibald Campbell Douglas of Mains.

The Campbells of Blythswood and the Douglases of Mains regularly changed their names to ensure that their estates remained in the respective families.

Brigadier General Douglas-Campbell, C.B., joined the Seaforths in May 1885, and served in India with the 2nd Battalion, taking part in the Hazara Campaign of 1888 and the Relief of Chitral in 1895. He commanded the 2nd Seaforths from 1909 to 1913, and at the outbreak of war was in command of the South Wales Infantry Brigade. 

He was transferred to the Gordon Brigade, Highland Division, at Bedford, in February 1915; but this brigade was re-formed before proceeding overseas, and was eventually composed of the 6th and 7th Black Watch and the 5th and 7th Gordons. On its arrival in France the brigade was renamed the 153rd Brigade. He commanded this brigade till May 5, 1917, when he was transferred to command the 217th Infantry Brigade. 

He took part in all the Division's actions from Festubert in May 1915 up to the capture of the Chemical Works at Roeux in April 1917. 

He was awarded the C.B. in January 1917, and was three times mentioned in dispatches.


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1561: Mary Queen of Scots, aged eighteen and now a widow, is increasingly isolated in France, and has little choice but to accept an invitation to return to a now Protestant Scotland as Queen.
1646: The death in Edinburgh of Alexander Henderson the theologian closely involved in the drawing up of the 1638 National Covenant.
1745: Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan.
1808: The birth in Edinburgh of James Nasmyth the inventor and engineer remembered mostly for his development of the steam hammer.

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