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The older brigade among our Alumni community will remember with great affection Major Jamie Campbell. He was a one-off, as the attached funeral address by his neighbour on Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, Charles Arbuthnott, makes clear. I was asked to post it by Christine Purdy (Abel), who in turn received it from Minty Pande – many of you again will know Christine as a fomer Field Director in Nepal and Minty as a long standing member of the Delhi Office and subsequently Head of the Regional Office in S Asia.
Jamie recently sent John Seaman a copy of an article he had written for the Black Watch regimental magazine – ‘The Red Hackle’ – telling in detail the story of the evacuation of Save the Children staff from South Vietnam in 1975. He wanted it to be preserved as part of the organisation’s history, and it is now in the Save the Children archive at the Cadbury Collection in the University of Birmingham. He also wrote a learned but hilarious piece on ‘pig-sticking’ in India, which I have courtesy of John and would be happy to send to anyone who would like a copy. It shows his gift for story-telling, his passion for research, his love of India, his sense of humour, and his humanity.
In case you are wondering, by the way, as I was: “Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials without the use of scientific apparatus.” – Wikipedia.
Mike
Jamie-Campbell-Funeral-Address.pdf
Hello Mike,
Thank you for drawing my attention to the Alumni Association for SCF. Great idea. Re Jamie, is there any way I can make a donation to SCF “in memorium”?
ChristineChristine
The easiest way is directly via the main SC website. This link will take you straight to the one-off donations page.
https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/donate/single/donation-single-00001
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