Template:Use British English Template:Infobox military person Major-General Sir Alexander Douglas Campbell KBE CB DSO MC (20 June 1899 – 3 April 1980) was General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.
Military career
Educated at Cheltenham College, Queens' College, Cambridge,[1] and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich,[2] Campbell was commissioned into the Royal Engineers 1917 and served in World War I.[3]
He also served in World War II becoming Assistant Director for Bomb Disposal in 1940.[3] He was appointed Chief Engineer for IX Corps in North Africa in 1943 and successively for I Corps in Normandy in 1944, for 2nd Army also in 1944 and for 14th Army in 1945.[3]
After the War he was made Deputy Director of Tactical Investigation and then transferred to Middle East Land Forces in 1947.[3] He became Engineer-in-Chief at the War Office in 1948 and Vice Adjutant-General to the Forces in 1952.[3] He was appointed General Officer Commanding Aldershot District in 1954 and retired in 1957.[3]
In retirement he was Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 1957 to 1962 and Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers from 1958 to 1964.[3]
In 1969, he acted as the military advisor to Richard Attenborough's film production of Oh! What a Lovely War.[4]
He lived at Shipley near Horsham in Sussex.[2]
Family
In 1923 he married Patience Loveday Carlyon.[2]
References
- ↑ Eminent Alumni. Queens' College, Cambridge. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Peerage.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Campbell, Douglas. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- ↑ Douglas Campbell. IMDb. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
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