Edward Cameron
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Edward Colin Joseph Cameron (1921 - 1940)

Pilot Ofcr Edward Colin Joseph Cameron
Born in Gisborne, North Island, New Zealandmap
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Died at age 19 in At War, Germanymap
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Edward Cameron is an Anzac who served in World War Two.
World War II

Biography

Edward was born in 1921. He was the son of Alan Banks Cameron and Alice Amelia Anderton.

He served in the 2nd World War attaining the rank of Pilot Officer with the Royal Air Force. Service No. 36237. He was with the 75th Squadron based at Feltwell, Norfolk in the United Kingdom.

In June 1940 Edward married Brenda Denison Singer at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.[1] They had no children.

Edward, along with Ronald Alexander John Anderson, John Lewis Owen and Samuel Miles MacKenzie Watson, perished when their Wellington bomber was shot down over Germany in July 1940. He was just 19 years of age.

There is no record, regarding the details of the loss of Wellington Mk. 1c R.3165 AA-L. The aircraft came down near Weseke, approximately 40 miles North North West of Horst airfield, near Gelsenkirchen. Other crews on the Op noted the presence of three Me.109’s, seen in the moonlight over the target area. Thus, it would be reasonable to conjecturise that the Watson crew succumbed to at least one of these aircraft.[[1]]

Burial

Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. GRAVE REFERENCE: 21 F [2]

Sources

  1. ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV82-TF6T : 8 October 2014), Edward C J Cameron and null, 1940; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,”
  2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56033066/edward-colin_joseph-cameron), memorial page for Edward Colin Joseph Cameron (unknown–20 Jul 1940), Find a Grave Memorial no. 56033066, citing Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Kreis Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany ; Maintained by War Graves (contributor 6)
  • Auckland Museum Online Memorial [[2]]




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Categories: Died in Military Service, New Zealand, World War II | No. 75 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, World War II | Anzacs, World War II | Royal Air Force | Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen | British War Medal | 1939-1945 Star