Colonel Sir Guy Theophilus Halswell Campbell, 5th Baronet

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, MC (18 January 1910 – 19 July 1993) was a British soldier. Sir Guy's branch of the

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, of St Cross Mede, were created in 1815 with

Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet (22 January 1786 – 26 January 1849), was a British Army officer. His branch of the Campbell baronets is referred to as St Cross Mede. Early life Campbell was born on 22 January 1786. He was the eld ...

Background

He was the eldest son of Sir Guy Colin Campbell, 4th Baronet and his first wife Mary Arabella Swinnerton Kemeys-Tynte, daughter of Halswell Milborne Kemeys-Tynte. In 1960, he succeeded his father as baronet. Campbell was educated at

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and the

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Career

Campbell was commissioned into the

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in 1932. With the outbreak of the

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in 1939, he was attached to the Camel Corps of the

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, commanding the 2nd and 7th Nuba Battalions. Serving in Abyssinia, he was wounded and received the

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in 1941. A year later he was promoted to captain and in 1945, he acted as brigadier in the Force's headquarter. Campbell was sent to the British embassy in

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as adviser to

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and to

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in 1948 and subsequently was despatched to

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, where he was awarded a gold medal by

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. In 1951, he was transferred to the

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. He was appointed to command the

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at the beginning of the

Mau Mau Uprising The Mau Mau rebellion (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau uprising, Mau Mau revolt, or Kenya Emergency, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as the Mau Mau, and the ...

in 1952. Campbell was made an Officer of the

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and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1954. After another two years he was appointed head of the military mission in

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until 1960. He was put on the reserve list in August and was granted an honorary colonelship. Five years later, having reached the age limit, he retired.

Family

On 17 August 1956, he married the musical comedy star Lizbeth Webb (whose real name was Elizabeth Holton). They had two sons: Lachlan Philip Kemeys Campbell, an artist and illustrator (''Eton Colours, When It Happened in Scotland,'' and ''When It Happened in Britain''), born in 1958, who has three children, Archie, Georgia and Ivo; and Rory Charles Fitzgerald Campbell, an opera singer and actor who owns the entertainment company Encore Management Ltd., born in 1961, who has a daughter, Olivia.Dewar, Peter Beauclerk. Sir Guy Campbell at ''Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain'', p. 153, Burke's Peerage, 2001 When Campbell died at the age of 83, he was succeeded in the

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by his elder son Lachlan.

Arms

Works

*''The Charging Buffalo: A History of the Kenyan Regiment 1937–1963'' (1986, Leo Cooper; )

References

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