Gunning Campbell | |
Birth Date: | 6 January 1863 |
Birth Place: | East Indies |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Branch: | Royal Marines |
Serviceyears: | 1880–1920 |
Rank: | Major General |
Commands: | Adjutant-General Royal Marines |
Battles: | Mahdist War First World War |
Awards: | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Major-General Gunning Morehead Campbell, (6 January 1863 – 29 November 1920) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines.
Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Campbell was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery on 1 September 1880. He took part in the Nile Expedition in 1884[1] and served as Inspector of Recruiting during the First World War. He went on to be Adjutant-General Royal Marines in July 1920 but died in office in November 1920.[2] He was buried in Portsmouth (Highland Road) Cemetery.[3]