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Alexander Angus Cameron

In memory of:

Sergeant Alexander Angus Cameron

November 20, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

R/283317

Age:

19

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Additional Information


Son of Alexander and Jesse Ann Cameron.

Commemorated on Page 265 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CEMETERY
Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

Grave 4107.

Location:

Startford-Upon-Avon Cemetery contains 22 First World War burials, made mainly from the hospital at Clopton House. During the Second World War, there was a contingent of the Royal Canadian Air Force based at nearby Wellesboune Mountford and of the 137 Second World War burials (most of them forming a war graves plot), 97 are of Canadian airmen. The cemetery also contains 15 war graves of other nationalities.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Sergeant Alexander Angus Cameron is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Sergeant Alexander Angus Cameron is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of ALEXANDER ANGUS CAMERON– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Other– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Other– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Biography– The letter my 23-year-old aunt wrote to my 21-year-old father, who was serving in the Royal Canadian Navy, to inform him of their brother Alex's death.
  • Photo of Alexander Cameron– Alexander Cameron circa 1944.
  • Photo of Alexander Cameron– Alexander Cameron circa 1944.
  • Inscription– Inscription to the memory of Alexander Angus Cameron on the family grave marker at Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Newspaper clipping– Royal Canadian Air Force Casualty List 1058, published in the Globe and Mail on December 6, 1944, reported that Alexander Angus Cameron was killed on active service overseas.  Duncan McKenzie Roy, whose name also appears on this list, is buried in the adjacent plot at Stratford-on-Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, and presumably was killed in the same plane crash.
  • Grave Marker– Photo provided by The Commonwealth Roll of Honour Project. Volunteer Henry Drury
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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