Né à Grosse-Ile : le Colonel Campbell Mellis Douglas (1840-1909) et sa bizarre carrière
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Né à Grosse-Ile : le Colonel Campbell Mellis Douglas (1840-1909) et sa bizarre carrière
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Campbell Mellis Douglas, a medical doctor and surgeon, joined the British Army in 1862. He and four other soldiers won the Victoria Cross in 1867 for bravery when they risked their lives in manning a boat and proceeding through dangerous surf off the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, India, to rescue some of their comrades who had been sent to the Little Andaman Island in order to locate the commander and crew from the ship Assam Valley. Douglas retired from the British Army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1882 and returned to Canada where, in 1885, he was recruited for service as a medical officer during the Northwest Rebellion. He retired to England in 1894, and died at Hollington, Somerset, on December 30, 1909.
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Les Cahiers des Dix
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No. 40
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113-139
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1975
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fr
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Leblond, Sylvio. “Né à Grosse-Ile : le Colonel Campbell Mellis Douglas (1840-1909) et sa bizarre carrière.” Les Cahiers des Dix No. 40 (1975): 113–139. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/medals-decorations/orders-decorations/canadian-victoria-cross-recipients/dr-douglas.
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