Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Maclachlan Carter-Campbell of Possil, was a senior British Army officer during the 1950s.
Occupation
military personnel
Citizenship
United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born
December 5, 1911
Died
January 1990
Overview
Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Maclachlan Carter-Campbell of Possil (8th of Possil) OBE (5 December 1911 – January 1990), son of Major-General George Tupper Campbell Carter-Campbell C.B., D.S.O, was a British Army Colonel during the 1950s.
Military career
Duncan Carter-Campbell was born on 5 December 1911 in Malta to General George Carter-Campbell and Frances Elizabeth Ward. He was educated at Malvern College, Worcestershire. He then entered RMC Sandhurst in 1930, and subsequently was commissioned into the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1932.
He served with the Regiment in India before the war in 1937-38 and was promoted to the rank of captain in January 1940 and major in November 1941.
In July 1943 he was appointed second in command of the 12th Battalion and on their disbandment was posted to the 1st Battalion in Italy and fought at the battles of Anzio and Monte Cassino. On 14 August 1944 he was promoted to Command the 1st Battalion where he fought in Nuremberg, Germany in 1945.
