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2 unusual facts about Arnold Burrowes Kemball


Arnold Burrowes Kemball

In 1869 gold had been found in the Strath of Kildonan resulting in an influx of outside prospectors and the establishment of a company for exploitation; the financial returns were not favourable and digging was abandoned.

In 1876 he served as British military commissioner accompanying Abdul-Kerim and his Turkish army in the 1876-77 Serbian-Ottoman War.



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