1816 - 1875 (59 years)
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Name |
George Campbell |
Prefix |
Lt Gen |
Suffix |
CB |
Birth |
1816 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1875 |
Person ID |
I130504 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
Family |
Emma Douglas, b. 1824, Harrow, Middlesex, England d. 1909, Chelsea, London, England (Age 85 years) |
Marriage |
1860 |
Family ID |
F25824 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
24 Jan 2013 |
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Notes |
- He may have been the son of Lt Col Patrick Campbell d 1850 Brighton whose other son was Lt Col Robt Parker Campbell CB
Emma's third husband Lt Gen Geo Campbell 1816-76 CB who died just off Piccadilly worth ?30,000
He was Colonel of the 52nd and his finest hour was the recapture of Delhi
En route to Delhi.he ordered his men to dye their white summer uniforms khaki
- his reason was that the men needed 5 prs of white trousers to look clean but only 2 prs of khaki trousers
The recapture of Delhi was extremely bloody and one would have thought the 52nd would have had other things than cleanliness on their mind
During the attack, Colonel George Campbell of the 52nd Light Infantry, led his column to the critical Kashmir Gate. He sent a small party of Bengal Engineers, under Lieutenant Duncan Home, to pack explosives under the gate. A firing party of the 52nd covered them as best it could, but half of the exposed sappers were killed. Lieutenant Philip Salkeld was mortally wounded, but Sergeant John Smith managed to touch off the explosion that blew a hole in the gate. As Bugler Robert Hawthorne of the 52nd sounded the attack, the British troops poured through the opening. Home, Salkeld, Hawthorne and Smith later received VCs; Salkeld's was the first posthumous award.
RPC d 1857 Lucknow of wounds,having commanded the 90th ,a regiment he also commanded when taking the quarries at Sebastopol
On the death of her 3rd husband,Emma lived on her own in Chelsea in some style (with a butler) and died worth nearly ?20,000
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