Dalgety-Campbell | Dalgety Gordon | | Hon Lieutenant | He was born at Sydney, NS Wales, 21 Oct 1877. He comes from an old Argyll and Aberdeenshire family, and is a cousin of Lady Trafalgar, who married the eldest son of the 3rd Earl Nelson in 1879. He is also cousin of Colonel Dalgety of Wepener fame. Mr Dalgety-Campbell was educated at Oxley College and Hawksbury Agricultural Colonel, NS Wales, and has had a varied career in Australia, China, Africa, and other parts of the globe. In early life he was for a short period in the Navy; he spent a short time with an exploring party in China; later on he was bookkeeper in a store in Parkes, NSW, and eventually went into the backblocks of Australia as a schoolmaster. A year later saw him as one of the best-known cross-country and steeplechase riders in the colony, at which he earned his living; he, however, abandoned this means of livelihood, and after engaging as a professional cycle rider, milkman, drover, fencer, and miner, he drifted into journalism. He was for some time editor of the Wyalong Advocate, published in a small township in NS Wales. When the Boer War broke out he went to Sydney, joined the NS Wales MI, and came to Africa as a trooper. He was severely wounded at Vet River, May 1, 1900. When Pretoria fell, he raced with Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent, to see who would be the first man to enter the capital. He reached the Artillery Barracks first, took possession, and when some hours later the troops entered Mr Campbell handed the barracks over to Major Marker, DSO of the Coldstream Guards, and ADC to Lord Kitchener. Among the prisoners in the barracks at the time were the famous Lieutenant Mike Du Toit, Major Erasmus, and Lieutenant Cordua, who was subsequently executed for being implicated in the attempt to kidnap Lord Roberts. At the hour of Mr Campbell's entry there were about 4,000 Boers in the town, guns, etc. At Diamond Hill, June 13, he was again severely wounded and invalided to Australia. Six months later be was again in SA, in command of a squadron of Mounted Rifles, retaining the command until peace was declared; after which he resigned his commission and was appointed as special travelling correspondent to the Leader. His articles ran in the Leader for weeks, and were noted for their fine descriptive power. Subsequently Captain Campbell was appointed to the Central Repatriation Commission sitting in Johannesburg; he resigned this position and took over the editorship of the Gold Fields News, Barberton. From here he went to England on journalistic work, returned to the Transvaal to edit the Transvaal Advertiser, and since became election agent for Mr Abe Bailey. He married, in 1906, Miss Carrie Erskine. | New South Wales contingent |