Duncan Frederick Campbell (28 April 1876
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, Ontario, Canada – 4 September 1916) was a
Canadian-born British politician and soldier. He served as a
Unionist Member of Parliament for
North Ayrshire
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and died while fighting in
World War I.
Life
Campbell was commissioned a
second lieutenant
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Australia
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in the
Lancashire Fusiliers on 23 November 1898, followed by promotion to
lieutenant on 27 September 1899. He served with the 2nd Battalion of his regiment in the
Second Boer War 1899–1901, including as part of the
Ladysmith Relief Force, and was slightly wounded at the engagement at Venters Spruit (20 January 1900), for which he was created a Companion of the
Distinguished Service Order (DSO). He was promoted
captain
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, 5 October 1901.
Campbell fought
Mid Lanarkshire for the Conservatives in
1906
Events
January–February
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. Campbell entered the House of Commons at a
by-election, 20 December 1911, defeating
Andrew Macbeth Anderson QC, who sought re-election on being appointed
Solicitor General for Scotland. Anderson, in accordance with the constitutional arrangements of the day, was obliged to resign as an MP and fight a
by-election on being appointed a
law officer of the Crown. The contest was dominated by the government's legislation on
National Insurance and the uncertainties this legislation would produce for individual electors, particularly those of small manufacturers and shopkeepers. Although there was no Labour candidate, Anderson was thought to have lost some support among working-class voters because of his opposition to Labour candidates in other recent elections. After a tight contest, Campbell captured the seat by a majority of 271 votes.
He was wounded at the
first battle of Ypres in November 1914 while serving with the
Black Watch; he lost his left arm and was invalided for a year. As a lieutenant colonel in the
Duke of Wellington's Regiment, commanding 2nd/7th Bn, he was wounded by a mine on the Western Front and died of his wounds at
Southwold, Suffolk on 4 September 1916. He is buried in
Kilmarnock
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Cemetery, Ayrshire. Campbell is commemorated on Panel 8 of the
Parliamentary War Memorial in Westminster Hall, one of 22 MPs that died during World War I to be named on that memorial. Campbell is one of 19 MPs who fell in the war who are commemorated by heraldic shields in the Commons Chamber. A further act of commemoration came with the unveiling in 1932 of a manuscript-style
illuminated book of remembrance for the House of Commons, which includes a short biographical account of the life and death of Campbell.
References
External links
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The One-Armed(Colonels of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)
angloboerwar.com(name database includes entry for Campbell)
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1876 births
1916 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
UK MPs 1910–1918
Duke of Wellington's Regiment officers
British Army personnel of World War I
British military personnel killed in World War I
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Black Watch officers
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
Lancashire Fusiliers officers
Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs
People from Norfolk County, Ontario
Trinity College (Canada) alumni
Canadian emigrants to Scotland
Canadian emigrants to the United Kingdom