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Major General Duncan Alexander Cameron
18081888
(Person)

Soldier, military leader.

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General Sir Duncan A. Cameron, G.C.B. — 42nd Royal Highlanders — Ensign 1825. Lt.Col. Commanding. 1843-1854. — Colonel of Regt. 1863. — Died 8th June, 1888 Major W. G. Mair — Major Mair, who served with great distinction in the Maori Campaigns, — 1863–72, was General Cameron's interpreter in the negotiations with the Maoris — Orakau, April 2nd, 1864. For many years after the wars he was a judge — of the Native Land Court The Rev. B.Y. Ahwell's Mision Station, Kaitothehe, Waikato River — The site of this pre-war mission station was on the left bank of the Waikato, opposite Taupiri. this picture is a sketch made shortly before the war in 1863, by Lieut. (afterwards Colone) H. S. Bates of the 65th regiment, who was an A.D.C. to Sir George Grey and Staff Interpreter to General Cameron. Governor Grey's camp, on one of his Waikato Expeditions, is shown on the river bank (see Note in Appendices, p. 103.)

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