Walter Campbell (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir Walter Campbell KCB KCMG DSO (1864–1936) was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

Military career
Campbell was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in 1887, and saw early service with the Waziristan Field Force, the Chitral Relief Force and the Tirah Expeditionary Force. In 1899-1900 he served in the Second Boer War, for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in November 1900. He then became Brigade Major for the Highland Brigade before becoming Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at Army Headquarters.

He also served in World War I becoming Deputy Quartermaster-General to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force taking part in the evacuation at Gallipoli. By June 1918 he was Quartermaster-General with the Imperial Camel Corps in Jordan. In 1918 he was sketched by artist James McBey, the official war artist to the Palestine Expeditionary Force.

He was appointed Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1923; he retired in 1927.