Regimental number | 2603 |
Place of birth | Princetown, Victoria |
School | Burrupa State School, Victoria |
Religion | Presbyterian |
Occupation | Farmer |
Address | Princetown, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 24 |
Next of kin | Father, Peter Cameron, Princetown, Victoria |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 24th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/41/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 58th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Polygon Wood, Belgium |
Age at death | 27 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 29), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 165 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents; Peter and Ruth Isabella CAMERON. Native of Princetown, Victoria |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Taken on strength, 58th Bn, Ferry Post, Egypt, 20 April 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 17 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 23 June 1916. Wounded in action, 26 November 1916 (gun shot wound, right arm and neck); admitted to 11th Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 29 November 1916; transferred to England, 5 December 1916, and admitted to 2nd Birmingham War Hospital, Northfield. Transferred to 3rd Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, 9 February 1917; granted furlough, 4 May 1917, to report to No. 1 Command Depot, Perham Downs, 19 May 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 28 June 1917; rejoined unit, 20 July 1917. Killed in action, 25 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |