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Campbell Mellis Douglas
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- Edinburgh Evening News - Saturday 17 April 1897
Newspaper cutting of the portrait of Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel Campbell Millis Douglas, V.C. in command of the regimental hospital in the Depot, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Berwick, who is leaving the army. Dt Douglas served in the 24th Foot and who won his Victoria Cross in the Andaman Islands, by conducting a boat through a heavy sea to one of the islands and saving the lives of 17 officers and men on the regiment. Dr Douglas intends to take up his abode at weighbridge, where he will have ample scope to prosecute his hobby of canoe building. He some time ago mad an unsuccessful attempt to cross the English Channel in one his canvas boats
