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Lance Corporal Edison Alexander Cameron

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Citation(s);

1939-1945 Star
Italy Star
Defence Medal
War Medal 1939-1945
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal

Military service

Service number: C/41983
Age: 26
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Canadian Provost Corps
Division: 1st Provost Coy.
Birth: April 7, 1917 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment: November 16, 1939 Rockcliffe, Ontario
Death: December 28, 1943 Ortona, Italy

Burial/memorial information

MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: I. E. 12.
Additional information

Son of Angus and Florence Jean Cameron, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

After his training with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he was posted to duty at the Justice Building in Rockcliffe. He volunteered with the Provost Corps and went overseas with the First Canadian Contingent in December 1939. Cst. Cameron had two brothers in the Canadian Army, one of which died a month before he did. At the time of his death, Cst. Cameron was engaged to be married. There is a street named after him in his honour.

His brother, Trooper Gordon Angus Cameron was killed in action on November 9, 1943 while serving with the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards.

Additional citations

1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp.

Related media

Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 143 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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Page 77 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Italy

By the winter of 1943, the German armies in Italy were defending a line stretching from the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Naples, to the Adriatic Sea south of Ortona. The Allies prepared to break through this line to capture Rome. For its part, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division was to cross the Moro River and take Ortona. In January 1944 the Canadian Corps selected this site, intending that it would contain the graves of those who died during the Ortona battle and in the fighting in the weeks before and after it. Today, there are 1,615 graves in the cemetery, of which over 50 are unidentified and 1,375 are Canadian.

The Moro River Canadian War Cemetery lies in the locality of San Donato in the Commune of Ortona, Province of Chieti, and is sited on high ground near the sea just east of the main Adriatic coast road (SS16). The cemetery can be reached from Rome on the autostrada A25 (Rome-Pescara) by branching on the autostrada A14 and leaving it at Ortona. The approach road to the cemetery from the main road passes under an arch forming part of the little church of San Donato. The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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