The Archive · 1938

Cambridgeshire Youth May Reach Great Heights

London, June 5.

Sir George Campbell, accompanied by Lady Campbell, has been engaged on a business tour in Japan and places en route from India, and he will leave Shanghai today on the P. & O. liner Carthage for Singapore and Calcutta, Connected with shipping since 1903, when he joined the Glasgow firm of Thomas Law & Ca. Sir George went to India in 1909, joining Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Ca, in Calcutta, He is a Leader, European Group of the Eengal Legislative Assembly, and it 1935 to 1936 was a member of the Council of State, New Delhi. Other offices he has held include;—President, Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Associated Chambers of Commarce, India, and President of the Calcutta Burns Club. During the war he served with the Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry, and later, the Highland Light Infantry, In 1918-19 he saw service on the North-West frontier with the D.C.O, Lancers, in which Regiment he held the rank of Captain.

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