Duncan Carter-Campbell of Possil


Duncan Maclachlan Carter-Campbell of Possil OBE , son of Major-General George Tupper Campbell Carter-Campbell C.B., D.S.O, was a British Army Colonel during the 1950s.

Military career

Duncan Carter-Campbell was born on 5 December 1911 in Malta to General George Carter-Campbell and Frances Elizabeth Ward. He was educated at Malvern College, Worcestershire. He then entered RMC Sandhurst in 1930, and subsequently was commissioned into the Cameronians in 1932.
He served with the Regiment in India before the war in 1937-38 and was promoted to the rank of Captain in January 1940 and Major in November 1941.
In July 1943 he was appointed second in command of the 12th Battalion and on their disbandment was posted to the 1st Battalion in Italy and fought at the battles of Anzio and Monte Cassino. On 14 August 1944 he was promoted to Command the 1st Battalion where he fought in Nuremberg, Germany in 1945.
As a Staff Officer, he was then posted to the British Middle East Land Forces to support operations in Palestine/Transjordan between 1945-1947.
At the end of the second world war he served with the British Army of the Rhine from 1947 to 1948 under occupied Germany.
In 1952 he went on to command the Cameronians 1st Battalion and, for services in Malaysia, was Mentioned in Despatches on 21 October 1952. He also served in Bahrain and Trucial Oman.
In 1958 he became Secretary to the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Scottish command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle; Lieutenant-General Sir George Collingwood. He was the Director Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo before retiring in 1962.
He was married to Margaret Elliot Davidson and had five children. He died in Dumfriesshire, Scotland in January 1990.