Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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 Roderick Hugh Cameron is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer Roderick Hugh Cameron is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of Roderick Hugh Cameron – SJ89959 Pilot Officer Roderick H. Cameron born 01-08-24 Former student of Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute (Toronto)

Plane Crash – Picture #1 German pictures taken of the Carmeron aircraft (LJ526)that blew up in the air. Only the engines were intact. Source of pictures is Mr. Finn Buch of Denmark

Site of plane crash – #2 The aircraft was a Stirling. This is the picture showing the wreckage scattered just outside of the village in Denmark where is was shot down by a night fighter.

Plane Crash – #3 German engineers removing the engine of the Stirling. Notice how close it came to the house in the background.

Plane Crash – #4 This engine almost buried itself in the ground.

Newspaper Clipping – This article is from the Toronto Sun.

Crash Report – Crash Report from the Dutch organization Bomber Command Search (Christel & Ger Boogmans).

crash Report 2 – Crash Report from the Dutch organization Bomber Command Search (Christel & Ger Boogmans).

High school registration card – P/O Cameron/s high school registration card, in his own hand. Note that he left school to join the army but ended up in the RCAF. Notes on the bottom are school staff.

Gravemarker – P/O Roderich Hugh Cameron's Grave in Denmark Photo by permission of Mr.Finn Buch Denmark

Group Photo – Rear: Cameron, Redfearn, Walker, Stean Front: Hughes, Freeman, Downing Downing was not on this trip Photo by permission of Mr.Finn Buch Denmark

Commemorative Plaque – On 24/4 at 09:00 it was reported from the Civil Air Defence in Svendborg thet five bodies had be found as well as a mine. The next day it was reported the the Wehrmacht had defused and removed a total of five mines. On 8/5 it was reported that the body of yet a flyer had been found during excavation of the wreck. The Wehrmacht buried the bodies on the grounds of the Dragonkaserne barracks in Svendborg. After the war their remains were disinterred as well as those of two flyers who had crashed in the sea off Vornæs on 15/2 1944 and a Danish resistance fighter.

Photo of Roderick Hugh Cameron – Photo from Archives Canada of Rod Cameron with his Air Gunners Badge. Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada

Photo of Roderick Hugh Cameron – Cameron's initial RCAF photo taken when he signed up and was shipped to basic training. Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada

Group Photo – The Freeman crew outside of their quarters. Cameron is in the rear in the centre.

Death Certificate

Telegram – The telegram that his parents dreaded came in late April 1944. Source: Whitehouse via Archives Canada

Telegram – This telegram confirmed Rod's death through the German Red Cross. Source: Whitehouse via Archives Canada

Letter – The Graves Concentration Unit exhumed the crews bodies and found a ring on one of them. They wrote all of the crew's families asking for a description of any personal jewelery. This was the acknowlegment letter to the Cameron's. It was Rod's ring. Source: Whitehouse via Archives Canada

Letter – This letter informs the Cameron family that their son's body could not be positively identified and he was laid in a join grave with the rest of his crew. Source: Whitehouse via Archives Canada

Newspaper Clipping – From the Toronto Star March 5, 1945, page 26