Archibald Cameron Macdonell

Infobox Military Person


name=Archibald Cameron Macdonell
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rank=Lieutenant-General
branch= Canadian Forces
commands= 7th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, 1st Canadian Division. Commandant of Royal Military College.
unit=84th, "the Royal Highland Emigrant Regiment, Butler's Rangers
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family=His father Samuel Smith Macdonell, QC, LLD, DCL, was Lieutenant Colonel Commanding the 2nd Essex Battalion, Windsor, Ontario, youngest son of Colonel the Honourable Alexander Macdonell, of Collachie, Inverness-shire, Scotland, who belonged to a cadet family of Glengarry; was a United Empire Loyalist, and fought through the Revolutionary War of 1776 to 1783, and was Colonel and Assistant Paymaster-General during the war of 1812-14.
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allegiance=Canada
lived=(6 October 1864 - 23 December 1941)
placeofbirth= Ottawa, Ontario
placeofdeath= Kingston, Ontario
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awards=K.C.B., C.M.G.,D.S.O.

Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., (6 October 1864 – 23 December 1941) was a Canadian police officer and soldier.

Education

He was born in Windsor, Canada West. He was educated at Trinity College School, Port Hope, Canada, and at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario. Macdonell graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1886. He received a commission in the Royal Artillery but he resigned without actually joining for family reasons.

Military Service

He became a Lieutenant in the Canadian Militia on 26 June 1886. He joined the Regular Canadian Army as a Lieutenant in the Canadian Mounted Infantry, Permanent Corps of Canada, on 6 April 1888. He exchanged into the North-West Mounted Police in September 1889, and was Adjutant of the whole force. He was in command of C Division and the Battleford District. He volunteered into the 2nd Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles for service in South Africa during the Boer War in January 1900, as Captain, and was promoted Major in May 1900. He fought in the Boer War with the 2nd Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles and was a commander of the 5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles. In 1907, he was second in command of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, which became Lord Strathcona's Horse in 1909. He would later command Lord Strathcona's Horse during World War I. After being promoted to Brigadier-General, he would command the 7th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, and in June 1917 the 1st Canadian Division. In 1919, he was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military College. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1925.

He died in 1941 and was buried in Catarqui Cemetery in Kingston, Ontario.

References

*4237 Dr. Adrian Preston & Peter Dennis (Edited) "Swords and Covenants" Rowman And Littlefield, London. Croom Helm. 1976.
*H16511 Dr. Richard Arthur Preston "To Serve Canada: A History of the Royal Military College of Canada" 1997 Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1969.
* [http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004874 Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell] at The Canadian Encyclopedia
* [http://www.rmcclub.ca/eVeritas/2006/Issue28/200628.htm Royal Military College's eVeritas Newsletter Issue 028/2006]
* [http://www.angloboerwar.com/DSO/m/macdonell_ac.htm Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell]
*H16511 Dr. Richard Arthur Preston "Canada's RMC - A History of Royal Military College" Second Edition 1982
*H16511 Dr. Richard Preston "R.M.C. and Kingston: The effect of imperial and military influences on a Canadian community" 1968
*H1877 R. Guy C. Smith (editor) "As You Were! Ex-Cadets Remember". In 2 Volumes. Volume I: 1876-1918. Volume II: 1919-1984. Royal Military College. [Kingston] . The R.M.C. Club of Canada. 1984