Education
Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Educated at Haileybury College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Arichibald Cameron was commissioned into the Black Watch in 1890 and saw service in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902. He was Military Secretary to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope from 1904 to 1907. He served in the First World War and was wounded in action in 1917.
In 1922 he became General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.
In 1925 he was appointed Director of Staff Duties at the War Office moving on to be General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1927, a post he held until 1931. He was appoined General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Scottish Command in 1933 and in 1936 also became Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
He retired in 1937. Archibald Cameron never married.