Educated at
Haileybury College and the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Arichibald Cameron was
commissioned into the
Black Watch as a
second lieutenant on 1 March 1890, promoted to
lieutenant on 3 August 1892, and to
captain on 6 October 1899. He was appointed adjutant in the 2nd battalion in April 1900, and with the battalion took part in the
Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902, during which he received a
brevet promotion as
major on 29 November 1900 (gazetted in the April 1901 South Africa Honours list). Following the end of the war he left Point Natal for
British India on the SS
Ionian in October 1902 with other officers and men of his battalion, which after arrival in Bombay was stationed in
Sialkot in
Umballa in
Punjab. He returned to South Africa to become military secretary to the governor of the
Cape of Good Hope from 1904 to 1907. Cameron served in the
First World War, initially as a GSO2 with the
5th Division from August 1914, when he was promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel, until March 1915, and later GSO1, still with the 5th Division, from March to October 1915. Promoted to temporary brigadier general in October 1915, he became brigadier general general staff (BGGS) for
X Corps, holding this position until July 1918, during which time he was advanced to brevet colonel in January 1916. After serving briefly as an additional BGGS with the
Fourth Army, he was made BGGS with the British Armies in France. He was made a
Companion of the Order of the Bath in January 1917. In 1922 Cameron became
general officer commanding (GOC)
Northern Ireland District. In 1925 he was appointed director of staff duties at the
War Office moving on to be GOC
4th Division in 1927, a post he held until 1931, Promoted to lieutenant general in March 1931, he was appointed general officer commanding-in-chief (GOC-in-C) of
Scottish Command in 1933 and in 1936 also became
governor of Edinburgh Castle; he retired from the army in 1937. ==Family==