Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cameron, Aylmer
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CAMERON, AYLMER (1833–)
Son of Lt-Colonel W. G. Cameron, Grenadier Guards : served in the Seaforth Highlanders (72nd), in the Crimea, and in the Indian mutiny : severely wounded at the storming of Kotah, where he gained his V.C. : commanded the King's Own Borderers, 1881–1883 : Chief of the Intelligence Department, 1883–6 : Commandant of Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1886–8 : General.