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Military service
Service number:
R/283317
Age:
19
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
November 20, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 4107.
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Jesse Ann Cameron.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Alexander Angus Cameron
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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 -
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 -
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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.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 265 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CEMETERY Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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