Son of John Frederick Vaughan Campbell (2nd Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin) and Sarah Mary (Cavendish) Campbell.
Brother of Lady Rachel Anne Georgina (Campbell) Howard, Victoria Alexandrina Elizabeth (Campbell) Lambton, Lady Muriel Sarah (Campbell) Boyle, Frederick Archibald Vaughan (3rd Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin), and Captain Alexander Francis Henry Campbell.
Husband of Katharine Susanna (Claughton) Campbell.
Father of Maud Campbell, Rev. Guy Ronald Campbell, Brigadier John Vaughan Campbell (of the Coldstream Guards, who was decorated with the Victoria Cross in 1916), and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Campbell.
Captain, Coldstream Guards. A member of Colonel (later Field Marshal) Sir Henry Evelyn Wood's staff, he was killed in action by a sniper at Battle of Hlobane during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 whilst rallying the forces around him.
Moments after Campbell's death, a prayer book was retrieved under enemy fire from the saddle bag on a killed horse by Private Alexander Walkinsahw of the 90th Regiment of Foot (who was serving as Colonel Wood's bugler), to better accomodate a quick midst-of-battle funeral and burial of Campbell's remains.
Colonel Wood, VC later wrote to the general officer commanding (Lieutenant General Lord Chelmsford) that if Campbell had survived he would have recommended him for the Victoria Cross (which at the time could not be posthumously awarded).
Outnumbered by Zulu warriors in the battle by a ratio of roughly 25,000 to just under 700, British and Colonial troops suffered 225 fatal casualties.
Requiescat in pace.
Brother of Lady Rachel Anne Georgina (Campbell) Howard, Victoria Alexandrina Elizabeth (Campbell) Lambton, Lady Muriel Sarah (Campbell) Boyle, Frederick Archibald Vaughan (3rd Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin), and Captain Alexander Francis Henry Campbell.
Husband of Katharine Susanna (Claughton) Campbell.
Father of Maud Campbell, Rev. Guy Ronald Campbell, Brigadier John Vaughan Campbell (of the Coldstream Guards, who was decorated with the Victoria Cross in 1916), and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Campbell.
Captain, Coldstream Guards. A member of Colonel (later Field Marshal) Sir Henry Evelyn Wood's staff, he was killed in action by a sniper at Battle of Hlobane during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 whilst rallying the forces around him.
Moments after Campbell's death, a prayer book was retrieved under enemy fire from the saddle bag on a killed horse by Private Alexander Walkinsahw of the 90th Regiment of Foot (who was serving as Colonel Wood's bugler), to better accomodate a quick midst-of-battle funeral and burial of Campbell's remains.
Colonel Wood, VC later wrote to the general officer commanding (Lieutenant General Lord Chelmsford) that if Campbell had survived he would have recommended him for the Victoria Cross (which at the time could not be posthumously awarded).
Outnumbered by Zulu warriors in the battle by a ratio of roughly 25,000 to just under 700, British and Colonial troops suffered 225 fatal casualties.
Requiescat in pace.
Son of John Frederick Vaughan Campbell (2nd Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin) and Sarah Mary (Cavendish) Campbell.
Brother of Lady Rachel Anne Georgina (Campbell) Howard, Victoria Alexandrina Elizabeth (Campbell) Lambton, Lady Muriel Sarah (Campbell) Boyle, Frederick Archibald Vaughan (3rd Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin), and Captain Alexander Francis Henry Campbell.
Husband of Katharine Susanna (Claughton) Campbell.
Father of Maud Campbell, Rev. Guy Ronald Campbell, Brigadier John Vaughan Campbell (of the Coldstream Guards, who was decorated with the Victoria Cross in 1916), and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Campbell.
Captain, Coldstream Guards. A member of Colonel (later Field Marshal) Sir Henry Evelyn Wood's staff, he was killed in action by a sniper at Battle of Hlobane during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 whilst rallying the forces around him.
Moments after Campbell's death, a prayer book was retrieved under enemy fire from the saddle bag on a killed horse by Private Alexander Walkinsahw of the 90th Regiment of Foot (who was serving as Colonel Wood's bugler), to better accomodate a quick midst-of-battle funeral and burial of Campbell's remains.
Colonel Wood, VC later wrote to the general officer commanding (Lieutenant General Lord Chelmsford) that if Campbell had survived he would have recommended him for the Victoria Cross (which at the time could not be posthumously awarded).
Outnumbered by Zulu warriors in the battle by a ratio of roughly 25,000 to just under 700, British and Colonial troops suffered 225 fatal casualties.
Requiescat in pace.
Brother of Lady Rachel Anne Georgina (Campbell) Howard, Victoria Alexandrina Elizabeth (Campbell) Lambton, Lady Muriel Sarah (Campbell) Boyle, Frederick Archibald Vaughan (3rd Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin), and Captain Alexander Francis Henry Campbell.
Husband of Katharine Susanna (Claughton) Campbell.
Father of Maud Campbell, Rev. Guy Ronald Campbell, Brigadier John Vaughan Campbell (of the Coldstream Guards, who was decorated with the Victoria Cross in 1916), and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Campbell.
Captain, Coldstream Guards. A member of Colonel (later Field Marshal) Sir Henry Evelyn Wood's staff, he was killed in action by a sniper at Battle of Hlobane during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 whilst rallying the forces around him.
Moments after Campbell's death, a prayer book was retrieved under enemy fire from the saddle bag on a killed horse by Private Alexander Walkinsahw of the 90th Regiment of Foot (who was serving as Colonel Wood's bugler), to better accomodate a quick midst-of-battle funeral and burial of Campbell's remains.
Colonel Wood, VC later wrote to the general officer commanding (Lieutenant General Lord Chelmsford) that if Campbell had survived he would have recommended him for the Victoria Cross (which at the time could not be posthumously awarded).
Outnumbered by Zulu warriors in the battle by a ratio of roughly 25,000 to just under 700, British and Colonial troops suffered 225 fatal casualties.
Requiescat in pace.
Inscription
"Captain the Honble. Ronald George Elidor Campbell, Second son of John Frederick Vaughan, second Earl of Cawdor. Born December 30th 1848. Coldstream Guards 1867, Adjutant 1st Battalion 1872-79. He served in the Zulu War as Staff Officer to Colonel Sir Evelyn Wood, VC, KCB, and fell on the Zlobani Mountain, March 28th 1879, in the performance of a most gallant act. He was buried where he fell by his comrades, under the fire of the enemy."
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