Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cameron, John Alexander

by Charles Edward Buckland

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CAMERON, JOHN ALEXANDER ( ? –1885)

Went out to India in a merchant's house : acted as Editor of the Bombay Gazette : was a special war-correspondent in the Afghan war, 1878, on the Kandahar side : went out to the battle-field of Maiwand, July 27, 1880 : was similarly employed as correspondent in Egypt, Madagascar, Tonquin, the Nile expedition, from 1880–5 : killed in the fighting after Abuklea on Jan. 18, 1885 : a tablet put up to his memory in St. Paul's Cathedral.