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Show A Major at Tvrenty-ssven. The voungest nn'or in the British army is John Campbell of the Cameron Highlanders (he is only 27 three years younger than any other major in the service). The two culHains above him were shot at Omdurnian. Major Campbell Camp-bell comer, of a long line of soldiers his father and grandfather were both in the Cameron Highlanders, and threes of his mother's brothers arc- commanding command-ing regiments in India, The yourcr man had a narrow escape from a death-shamming dorvish after the bat-'tlc bat-'tlc of Omdufman. Campbell had turned his he-ad to speak to his companion, or a spear thrown by the supposed corpse must have killed bin'- |