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Major-General '''Dominic Jacotin Gamble''' [[Companion of the Order of the Bath|CB]] (15 August 1823 – 21 November 1887) was a [[British Army]] [[officer]] from 1844 until his death in 1887. He played a significant role in the New Zealand wars under Lieutenant General Duncan Cameron and the 4th Foot Regiment.

== Family Background ==
Dominic Jacotin Gamble was born in Donegal, [[County Cork]], [[Ireland]] on 15 August 1823. It is unclear who his parents are or if he had siblings or what his early education was like, but he was the father of Brigadier-General Richard Narrien Gamble C.B. (1860–) and Sir [[Reginald Arthur Gamble]], Kt (1862–).<ref name="family:1">Family research thanks to R. Greaves (1999)</ref>

== Early career ==
Gamble was first commissioned (brevet) as an [[ensign]] in the 4th Foot Regiment in 1844<ref name="Debrett:1">{{cite book |last1=Debrett |first1=John |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage |date=1884 |page=702}}</ref> and then as a Lieutenant was posted at ‘Maker Barracks’ Vaulters Home Maker, St Germans in Cornwall where he passed his exam in native languages (on 26 January 1847) and worked to become captain and to serve in Turkey between 1854 and 1855,<ref name="Debrett:1" /> and was with the 4th Regiment in the [[Crimean campaign|Crimean Campaign]] in 1855, after which he was decorated (receiving a medal with clasp, and the Turkish medal in 1856) and promoted to the rank of major.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=J. |title=Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry ... |date=1877 |page=49}}</ref>

==Family==
Possibly while attending the British Army's recently established staff college at [[Farnborough, Hampshire|Farnborough]] he met Mary Eleanor, daughter of Benjamin Macnair and Mary Rennie Miller of Greenfields. They married on 23 June 1859 at Falkirk, Stirlingshire in Scotland<ref>{{cite news |title=Family Notices |agency=British Newspaper Archive |publisher=Stirling Observer |date=1859}}</ref> and the couple subsequently had three children, two boys Richard (in 1860) and Reginald (1862) and later a daughter (1864 in Auckland New Zealand).<ref name="family:1" />

==New Zealand Wars==
From 1861 as [[Lieutenant colonel|Lieutenant-Colonel]] he took up the post of Deputy [[Quartermaster general|Quartermaster-General]] (DQMG) in [[New Zealand]] on the staff of Lieutenant [[Duncan Cameron (British Army officer)|General Duncan Cameron]] responsible, in conjunction with the commissariat department, for arranging supplies for the British forces. Over the following six years he also acted as an unofficial chief of staff for Cameron and, later, for Major General [[Trevor Chute]], performing a wide range of tasks and acting as the central point for the receipt of reports for the general officer commanding and for the dispatch of his orders to subordinates (where he was repeatedly being [[mentioned in dispatches]]).<ref name="Debrett:1" />

Gamble was praised by Cameron for the part he played in preparations for an invasion of [[Waikato]] — setting up camps for some 10,000 British troops in South Auckland and organising the construction of the [[Great South Road, New Zealand|Great South Road]] between 1862 and 1863 — and in recognition of his services during the campaign was granted [[Companion of the Order of the Bath|CB]] in 1864.<ref name="Debrett:1" /> Then for the War Office as brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in 1865 before receiving the rank of brevet colonel. He further served in the campaigns at [[Tauranga campaign|Tauranga]], Gate Pa, [[Wanganui campaign|Wanganui]] and [[Second Taranaki War|South Taranaki]] all for which on the 6 February 1866 he was made Colonel and awarded another medal.<ref name="DNZB Gamble">{{DNZB|title=Dominic Jacotin Gamble|first= J. A. B.|last= Crawford|id=1g1|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref>

He returned to England and was then governor of the [[viceroy]] of Egypt's son in England between 1868 and 1869, before becoming Major-General in 1870 and knight of the Egyptian [[Order of the Medjidie]] (3rd Class). He was made assistant-quartermaster-general at [[Aldershot]] from 1869 to 1874, and made Lieutenant-Colonel of brigade depot from 1876.<ref name="Debrett:1" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Haydn |first1=Joseph |title=The Book of Dignities: Containing Lists of the Official ... |date=1890 |page=721}}</ref>

==British West Indies==
After he was promoted to Major-General (1877) he arrived at [[Barbados]] on 1 October 1878 and took command of British forces in the [[West Indies]] and even held the post as Deputy [[Governor-General of Barbados|Governor]] of Barbados and the [[Windward Islands]] during 1880.<ref name="Debrett:1" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Barbados |title=The Barbados Year Book |date=1937 |page=119}}</ref>

Returning to England, he was appointed Director-General of military education in 1887 but unfortunately aged 64 Major-General Dominic Jacotin Gamble died at South Kensington, London, on 21 November 1887.<ref name="family:1" />

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Governors of Barbados|state=collapsed}}
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{{Use British English|date=April 2017}}

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[[Category:Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers officers]]

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