Cecil William Francis Cameron RAAF (1915 - abt. 1991)

Born 3 Aug 1915 in Aramac, Queensland, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Peggy Cornelia (McCosker) Cameron — married 2 Oct 1945 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Died about 1991 at about age 75 in Queensland, Australia

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Cecil Cameron RAAF is an Anzac who served in World War Two.

Flt Lt Cecil Cameron RAAF was a Prisoner of War during World War II.

Biography

He was in a Hampden Torpedo Bomber of 455 Squadron, repositioning to Severomorsk Russia to threaten the Battleship Tirpitz and get Convoy PQ18 through and prevent a Russian collapse at Stalingrad. He was not shot down over Bremen as the following report suggests.^[1]

Cec was a Wireless Operator Air Gunner in Sqn Ldr Jimmy Catanach's Hampden UB-C and crossing the Norwegian Arctic Coast was fired on by a flak-ship - UJ109. Below 1,000Ft, Catanach was compelled to make an immediate wheels-down landing in the hope of making repairs. The crew were picked up Immediately and were in Dulag Luft within four days.

Cecil escaped POW camp but was recaptured. Luckenwalde Camp was liberated 22 April 1945. Cecil was in the Long March of the POWs by the Germans, in the winter at the end of WW2 and survived

Sources

1. ↑ Return from being a POW, Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld.), Thursday 13 September 1945

• Birth, Queensland BDM (F= William, M= Mary Agnes Wallace
• National Archives of Australia, service record, RAAF service number 404632; next of kin: Allen Cameron
• Marriage, Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld.), Tuesday 16 October 1945; married to Sgt Peggy McCosker (WAAF), eldest daughter of Mrs V. McCosker, Brisbane
• Cecil William Francis Cameron (The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, https://www.powmemorialballarat.com.au/ : accessed 16 Mar 2024)

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