Career
Cameron was a 42nd Regiment of Foot officer (lieutenant 1826, captain 1833, major 1839, and colonel 1854).
He made an Officer of the Legion of Honour, received the Order of the Medjidieh, 3rd class (1858), and was commander of H.M. Forces in Scotland (1860)
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