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mentioned in despatches, received the brevets of major and 
lieut.-colonel, a medal and two clasps; and after obtaining his lien- 
tenant-colonelcy in 1865, he commanded the 2nd battalion of the 
King’s — a post which he retained for nine years at Malta and in 
various home quarters. In 1876 he was nominated to the command 
of the 13th and 14th Brigade Depots, retiring finally in 1878. He 
was gazetted C.B. on 2nd June 1877, and 24th March 1880 was 
appointed honorary colonel of the 15th Lancashire Rifle Volun- 
teers. 
After his retirement he lived chiefly in Edinburgh, and subse- 
quently died at Liverpool, on 2nd December 1884, of a disease of 
an incurable and most painful nature, borne with singular patience 
and cheerfulness. Robertson was a man of much thoughtfulness, 
as well as a zealous soldier, and wrote with great independence on 
the following subjects : — Infantry ; the tactics of the three arms ; 
on the first three parts of the field exercises and evolutions of the 
army, and on some of the resemblances and differences between 
them and the corresponding part of the French ordnance, &c. ; on 
the means of applying the principle of stimulating the voluntary 
exertions of individuals to the improvement of the system of military 
training; and a variety of other subjects connected with his 
profession. Besides which, he devoted his leisure for some years 
to a verse translation of “Jerusalem Delivered.” In later years he 
re-edited the Historical Record of the King’s Regiment. Robertson 
was therefore a man whom we may well be proud to reckon among 
our Fellows. 
Augustus John Darling Cameron. By T. Stevenson, 
P.R.S.A. 
Augustus John Darling Cameron, the only son of the late John 
Cameron of Edinburgh, was born in October 1841, and was educated 
at the High School and University there. In 1860 he began an 
apprenticeship as a civil engineer with the late Mr John Paterson. 
He was subsequently in the employment of Messrs Foreman and 
M‘Call, Glasgow, and Messrs Wylie & Peddie, and was engaged on 
railway and other works. He held an appointment of engineer in 
