Adventurers - Lado Enclave - 1910 - Another curious, if not eccentric, character, was a Scotsman named McQueen. By profession  a miner and prospector, he had seen much life in Australia and S. Africa before he reached EA. Once he came into contact with elephant hunting and poaching he took to it like a duck to water .......... a stauncher or more reliable mate or companion did not exist in the Congo and Nile country. .......... This man had all the incongruities of the ultra religious Scot mixed with the rough manners and exterior of the pioneer and hustler of the outer world. ........ McQueen's original object in going to Uganda was to prospect for gold. But he soon ran out of funds and turned his attention to elephant poaching. At this he did well for a time but at last met with a serious accident that cost him an arm. He had shot a good-sized tusker and thought it was dead; but on going up to look at the ivories the animal caught him with its trunk and injured his arm so severely that gangrene set in and he had to have it amputated. Notwithstanding this loss, he continued successfully as an elephant hunter for some time, shooting from a tripod he carried with him. Later he got a job on the Kilo gold-fields with the Belgians. Later again he went south to Rhodesia and was lecturing there when the Great War broke out. He was given a commission in the Rhodesian forces which came up to Tanganyika, and placed in charge of transport. He died during the campaign ...... (more)

Uganda Journal - Vol 24, p. 217 - Ivory Poaching in the Lado Enclave by R.O. Collins - ……Through the efforts of the Intelligence Department of the Sudan Government the more flagrant poachers were well known to the Sudan authorities. ……… an equally skilful poacher was the eccentric Scot, MacQueen. A miner by profession he had prospected in Australia, South Africa, and Uganda before taking up poaching in the Enclave. There he lost an arm when it was smashed by a wounded bull elephant, but continued to hunt, shooting from a tripod carried by his gunbearer.

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CWGC - Captain James MacQueen, MC, 2nd Bn. Rhodesia Regiment who died age 59 on 14 December 1917. Son of Donald Macqueen and Marion Mackinnon Macqueen, of Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland; husband of the late Edith Steane Macqueen. Mentioned in previous Despatches (Basuto and South African Campaigns). Rembered with honour. Dodoma Cemetery

Chandler - MacQueen, a hard-drinking but devoutly religious man, hunted elephant in the Lado Enclave. He was originally from Scotland and had spent his life prospecting in Australia and South Africa before arriving in East Africa in the 1900s. He became a hunter only after expending all his money looking for gold in Uganda and Kenya.. John Boyes (1927) recorded that he first met MacQueen on the Kenya coast when he tried to return a horse that had strayed from the MacQueen camp. MacQueen was digging a test hole in a dry riverbed, and gave Boyes "the rudest reception it had ever been my lot to experience in Africa." The Scotsman later apologized when he chanced upon Boyes in Nairobi. MacQueen was a religious zealot and between safaris could usually be found in the Ugandan town of Kobe, the entry port for the ivory poached in the Belgian Congo. There he would frequently accost hunters for swearing and taking the Lord's name in vain. ………….. [more] During MacQueen Lado days a 'dead' elephant suddenly came to life and ripped his arm off with its trunk. Thereafter he took to carrying a tripod to steady his rifle. According to Boyes, MacQueen worked at the Kilo gold fields in the Belgian Congo for a while, and then by 1914 was lecturing in Rhodesia. When war came in 1914 he was commissioned as an officer in the transport department of the Rhodesian Volunteer Forces in East Africa, and he died of natural causes ? while campaigning in Tanganyika.