An ornament to his profession

A memorial erected to the memory of a Major in the British army in the early nineteenth century in the Old Calton graveyard in central Edinburgh. As it says, Major Archibald Argyle Campbell had a 24-year military career, meaning he must have joined the army aged 16, back in 1784 or 1785. His final battle was the heroic rearguard action at Corunna (a Dunkirk for the Napoleonic Wars), scene of the more famous death of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore. Major Campbell was part of the evacuated army but died of fever back in Plymouth shortly afterwards.