General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War and part of the New Zealand Wars. He was later a governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
General Sir Duncan Cameron
Cameron's house near Drury, Auckland, with staff tents to the left
A depiction of the Battle of Rangiriri, 20 November 1863, a pen sketch by Charles Heaphy
Cameron with a group of soldiers of the Colonial Defence Force on the morning of 29 April 1864, prior to the attack on Gate Pā. Cameron is standing at right, leaning against the centre of the wheel of the gun carriage
42nd Regiment of Foot
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The 42nd Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army also known as the Black Watch. Originally titled Crawford's Highlanders or the Highland Regiment and numbered 43rd in the
Duncan Cameron (British Army officer)
…of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Born into a family with a military tradition, Cameron joined the British Army in 1825. Commissioned into the 42nd Regiment of Foot, he had risen to the rank of lieutenant-colonel by 1854 and was a battalion commander. He served in the Crimean War and fought in the Battle of Alma…
Cap badge of the 42nd Regiment of Foot
c. 1742 engraving of a regimental private
The regiment at the Battle of Fontenoy
c. 1758 painting of the regiment being reviewed on the Glasgow Green