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Military service
Service number:
J/18517
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
51 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
August 28, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 1. J. 12-18.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Donald John Cameron
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Photo of Donald John Cameron
Enlisted in June 1941, became a air gunner with #51 RAF Squadron and on his 26th operation his Halifax aircraft failed to return from a raid on Nuremberg. -
Photo of Donald Cameron
His aircraft failed to return from a raid on Nurnberg, August 27th, 1943. He was posted as missing but his death was corroborated by the German Red Cross who reported identification of one member of a crew of seven from the wreckage of a British bomber, thus identifying the rest of the crew. -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Donald John Cameron is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Donald John Cameron is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of DONALD JOHN CAMERON
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Cemetery
Durnbach War Cemetery, 83703 Gmund am Tegernsee, Germany, October 16 2014 -
Circumstances of death registers
Crash Report, RAF Bomber Command, 51 Squadron, 4 Group, August 28 1943 -
Grave marker
RCAF Pilot Officer D.J. Cameron gravestone, Durnbach War Cemetery, October 16 2014 -
Cemetery
RCAF Pilot Officer D.J. Cameron gravesite, Durnbach War Cemetery, October 16 2014 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 143 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Germany
Durnbach is a village 16 kilometres east of Bad Tolz, a town 48 kilometres south of Munich. Durnbach War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village Gmund am Tegernsee. Using the A8 from Munich, turn off at the junction Holzkirchen, taking the 318 road in the direction of Gmund am Tegernsee. At the crossroads with the 472, turn left in the direction of Miesbach. The cemetery is situated approximately 500 metres on the left from the 318/472 crossroads.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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