Bruce Atta Campbell
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Brigadier Sir Bruce Atta Campbell 2nd of Arduaine, KCB CBE TD (1888 – 1954) was a British Army officer and appointed by King George VI as Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire in 1949, after the death of the previous postholder Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll.[1]
Educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge,[2] Sir Bruce's early plans for military office via Sandhurst were thwarted by a heart condition[3]: 28 but he was able to join the Territorials (Scottish Horse) with the rank of Second Lieutenant in 1908.[4] After the outbreak of the First World War he was appointed adjutant on 3 November 1914,[5] and was wounded in Gallipoli in 1916.[3]: 29 He became a brigade major on 7 May 1918,[5] temporary Major in 1921,[6] and was conferred with the Territorial Decoration in 1925. [7] By 1933 he held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel and was given command of the 8th Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.[8][9] He became chair of the Argyll Territorial Association on 24 August 1939 and was appointed to the honorary rank of Colonel on 21 July 1940. He served as a staff officer with the Army Cadet Force in Scottish Command from 4 October 1943.[5]
He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the King's 1938 New Year Honours[10] and Knight Commander, Order of the Bath (KCB) in the King's 1948 Birthday Honours,[11] by which time he held the rank of Brigadier. After the Second World War he was president of the Argyll Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association.[5]
Personal life
He was the son of tea-planter J(ames) Arthur Campbell 1st of Arduaine and his wife Ethel Margaret Bruce. Arthur had bought a farm estate previously known as Asknish, renamed it Arduaine and started building a “mansion house” there in 1898, along with a botanical garden in its grounds.[3]: 24
In 1913 Sir Bruce married Margaret Helen Macrae-Gilstrap (daughter of Lieutenant Colonel John Macrae-Gilstrap, who had bought the then ruined Eilean Donan castle in 1911), and lived with her at Arduaine House after the death of his mother in 1936.[12][3]: 29 Sir Bruce's son Iain sold the house in 1964, when it became the Loch Melfort Motor Inn (now Loch Melfort Hotel); the botanical garden was also sold separately and is now the NTS-managed Arduaine Garden.[3]: 33
References
- ↑ The London Gazette, 13th December 1949 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38783/page/5909/data.pdf
- ↑ Evening Times 28 Aug 1954 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2zA-AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=%22Bruce+Atta+Campbell%22&article_id=6130,5428860
- 1 2 3 4 5 The Scottish Rhododendron Society Yearbook 2015 “People, Places & Plants: J. Arthur Campbell’s Adventurous Life and an Historical Perspective of Arduaine Garden” by John M Hammond https://scottishrhododendronsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/yb_16_2015.pdf
- ↑ The London Gazette, 4th Feb 1908 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28106/page/811
- 1 2 3 4 Oldfield, Paul (31 August 2015). Victoria Crosses on the Western Front, April 1915–June 1916. Casemate Publishers. p. 198. ISBN 978-1-4738-7208-0.
- ↑ The London Gazette, 10th May 1921 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32320/supplement/3818
- ↑ The London Gazette, 3rd Nov 1925 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33098/page/7164
- ↑ The London Gazette, 31st oct 1933 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33991/page/7039
- ↑ Burke’s Landed Gentry Scotland 2010, p1046 https://www.burkespeerage.com/record_to_view.php?book=Burke%27s%20Landed%20Gentry%20Scotland&ref=Scotland&page=1046
- ↑ Referred to a Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel in The London Gazette, 1st Jan 1938 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34469/supplement/4
- ↑ referred to as Brigadier of the 8th Battalion in The London Gazette, 10th June 1948 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38311/page/3366
- ↑ The Ballad of Larachmhor, John M Hammond 2011, p15 https://www.larachmhor.co.uk/assets/the-ballad-of-larachmhor---john-hammond-2012-web-edit.pdf