Captain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong

About the Book

Captain Ronald Campbell served in the British military in the first half of the nineteenth century, and his life and service speak to the hardships of army life around the world and in Sydney and New South Wales in those bygone days. In Captain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong, author Ivor George Williams shares his research into Captain Campbell’s life and the history of the regiments in which he served. Ivor traces Captain Campbell’s influence on the Bombala district, and he offers fellow historians a broad collection of historical documents about the men and women who both served and lived during this time in Australian history. Although we may believe that the twenty-first century is changing at an ever-increasing rate, history reminds us that the nineteenth century had a more rapid and significant change. Captain Robert Campbell’s life can remind us of the service and determination that made the descendants of these pioneers rally to the flag so valiantly on the eve of World War 1.

About the Author

Ivor George Williams was born in Hereford, England, on February 25, 1932. After being evacuated from London at the outbreak of World War 2, he lived in Herefordshire and Shropshire during the war, and he later enlisted in the Welsh Guards in 1949. Ivor emigrated to Australia in 1957, and he served a long career as a police officer before retiring in 1987. Today Ivor has a strong interest in British military history, and he has researched and visited a number of important historical battlefields.