Ardtaraig

MILITARY CONNECTIONS OF THE ARDTARIG FAMILY

Paternal

Grandpapa’s only brother – Daniel Campbell, Major, Royal Marines, killed at the taking of Martinique, in 1794.
Grandpapa’s eldest son – Duncan Campbell, Captain 12th Regiment, Indian Native Infantry.
Grandpapa’s nephew – Lachlan Maclachlan, Captain, H. E. I. C. S. (Honourable East India Company)
Grandpapa’s grand-nephew – General Alexander Campbell.
Grandpapa’s first cousin – Colonel Alexander Campbell of Ballochyle.
Grandpapa’s cousin – General Robert Blair Campbell, United States Army, Southern. (Note: “Southern Command” prior to and not connected to Southern Confederate Army).

MILITARY CONNECTIONS OF THE ARDTARIG FAMILY
Maternal
Grandmamma’s brother – John Campbell, Major, 16th Foot.
Grandmamma’s brother – Andrew Campbell, Captain, 21st Foot.
Grandmamma’s first cousin – Arthur Forbes, Major in the Army.
Grandmamma’s first cousin – Charles Forbes, Captain in the Army.
Grandmamma’s first cousin – John Campbell, Major, Royal Marines.
Grandmamma’s first cousin – Ivie Campbell, Colonel, H.E.I.C.S.
Grandmamma’s first cousin – Alexander Campbell, Lieutenant. H.E.I.C.S., died young.
Grandmamma’s cousin-in-law – John Campbell, Major, 21st Foot.
Grandmamma’s second cousin – Ivie Campbell, Major on the, Staff, Indian Service.
Grandmamma’s second cousin – William Campbell, Captain in the Army.
Grandmamma was related on the mother’s side to General Elliott, the hero of Gibraltar, afterwards created Lord Heathfield.

Note: A great number of Campbells, including those above, were officers in India, either with the Honourable East India Company or other regular British forces.

Queensland Line Military History

Colin Clyde Campbell, Major in the Australian Army, Boer War and World War 1. Appointed MBE  VD for services to the War.

Donald George Campbell, Pilot Officer in RAAF World War 2, did not survive the War, buried in Ambon, Indonesia

Colin King Campbell, Lieutenant World War 2

The following Notice from the Cairns Post 10th July 1942

The death has been announced from Brisbane of Major Colin Clyde Campbell, who saw service in the Boer and Great War.

He is believed to have been the first Australian to enlist at Innisfail in the 1914-18 war.

A brother of E.R.Campbell, a prominent cane farmer of the Mourilyan district , the late Major Campbell surrendered his commission as a lieutenant in the old Moreton Regiment to go on service in South Africa as a private with the first Queensland contingent, commanded by Major Ricardo.

Major Campbell went overseas with the early reinforcements  of AIF in 1914, and after been invalided home through wounds he returned to the front with the 42nd  Battalion.