“A pupil of Sir John Moore.” Bn. 1781. Younger son of Alexander Cameron, of Inverallert, co. Argyll. Served in Holland in 1799 and in Egypt in 1801. Was severely wounded in the arm and side at the battle of Alexandria. Served through most of the Par. War, until severely wounded at the battle of Vittoria. Severely wounded in the throat at Waterloo. Received a gold medal for Egypt and a gold medal with two clasps for Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, and Salamanca. C.B. for Waterloo. Maj.-Gen. 1838. Col.-in-Chf. 74th Regt. 1846. D. 26th July, 1850. Footnote 3: At Waterloo the command of the battalion devolved upon Leach when his two senior officers were wounded. C.B. and bt. lt.-col. In 1831 published _Rough Recollections of an Old Soldier_. D. as lt.-col. 14th Jan., 1855, at Worthing, aged 70. Footnote 4: According to the _Army List_ of 1st Jan., 1820, this officer was “superseded.” His name appears, however, in the h. p. list of this regt. in 1821 and for some years after. Footnote 5: Afterwards capt. retired f. p. 4th Rl. Vet. Batt. D. 1826. Footnote 6: An interesting memoir of this gallant soldier appeared in the _United Service Journal_ for 1837. He was a native of Dumfriesshire, where his father had a small property of his own. In 1805 he joined the 52nd L.I. as an ensign, and in the year following was appointed to a lieutenancy in the Rifle Brigade (as the old 95th is now styled). As a lieut. he had the good fortune to command one of the four companies of the Rifles which, under Sir S. Beckwith, at the Pass of Barba del Puerco, on 19th March, 1810, so gallantly repulsed 600 chosen French troops who attempted to surprise them at midnight. I extract the following from the above memoir:—“On the 19th Jan., 1812, he was one of the officers who volunteered and led the stormers at the taking of Ciudad Rodrigo, and was fortunate enough to come out unscathed, although one of the first to enter that deadly pass. At the storming of Badajoz on the 6th April, 1812, his name again stood on the list of volunteers for the Forlorn Hope, but as it was claimed by a senior officer of the division, he was obliged to limit his expectations to one of the posts of honour with the storming party. Sir Andrew Barnard, however, who commanded the Light Division, knowing how peculiarly well qualified he was for desperate enterprise, assigned him a post in front of the Forlorn Hope, in the command of a party carrying ropes prepared with nooses to throw over the sword-blades which formed the chevaux-de-frise, in the hope of being able to displace it by dragging it down the breach, but Johnstone and all his party were stricken down before they got within throwing distance. His appearance next morning is thus described by a brother officer, Capt. Kincaid, in _Random Shots from a Rifleman_, page 287:—‘The first tent that I entered was Johnstone’s. With his shattered arm bandaged, he