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n Contingent in Oct.; was encamped on Salisbury Plain and at
Winchester, and left for France on 20 Dec. 1914. The regt. was sent
up to the trenches in the neighbourhood of Ypres, and was constantly
engaged. He fell in the counter-attack upon the Germans at St. Eloi, 15
March, 1915, and was buried in the Princess Patricia's Canadian L.I.
cemetery at Voormezeele; _unm._ His brother, Col. Kenneth Cameron,
of Montreal, was the officer in charge of the Surgical Division of
No. 1 Canadian General Hospital at Netheravon on Salisbury Plain, and
Etaples, France, and later officer commanding No. 2 Canadian General
Hospital at Le Tréport, France.

 [Illustration: =Donald Ewan Cameron.=]

=CAMERON, EVAN STUART=, Corpl., No. 25931 (Royal Montreal Regt.),
14th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest surviving _s._
of Sir Edward John Cameron, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief
of Gambia, by his wife, Eva Selwyn, dau. of the late Robert Mackintosh
Isaacs, LL.D., of New South Wales; _b._ Turks Island, West Indies,
21 Sept. 1893; educ. Blundell's School, Tiverton (1905-12), where he
was head for two years, and on leaving there in Sept. 1912, went to
Montreal to join the Royal Bank of Canada. He enlisted in the Canadian
Contingent on the outbreak of war, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action
near St. Julien, 24 April, 1915; unm. Major Beatty. A.D.C. to General
Alderson, Commanding 1st Canadian Contingent, wrote: "He was dearly
loved by all his comrades, and he had earned the respect and admiration
of all, and had behaved with the greatest gallantry all through that
dreadful time from 5 p.m. on Thursday, 22 April, up to the time of his
death." His Capt. said: "He handled his men wonderfully, and would
have been given a commission had he survived the battle," and the head
master of Blundells: "As I look back upon his school career I feel that
we have lost one of the most sterling of the old pupils whom I remember
in my long experience of 40 years." He was a good cricketer, and was
capt. of the cricket eleven and football fifteen for two years at
Blundells and won the average bat four years in succession. He played
against the Australian XI in 1913 and made the first century of the
season for the McGill Cricket Club in July, 1914. He also played at
Lords in 1912 in a Public Schools XI.

 [Illustration: =Evan Stuart Cameron.=]

=CAMERON, JOSEPH=, stoker, P.O., 292522, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when
that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CAMERON, MORTON AUGUSTUS=, Private, No. 22557, 15th Battn. (48th
Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._
of Augustus Morton Cameron, of St. Stephen's, New Brunswick, Canada,
Labourer, by his wife, Isabella Mary, dau. of Caleb Hennessey;
_b._ St. Stephen's afsd. 27 Nov. 1896; educ. Mark Street
School there; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in
the 71st New Brunswick Regt. at St. Stephen's, 8 Aug. 1914. After 3
weeks at Fredericton, N.B., he was sent to Valcartier, where he was
transferred to the 12th Battn., and left for England with the first
Canadian contingent. They landed at Plymouth on 14 Oct. and trained
on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914-15. On 23 April. 1915,
he was transferred to the 15th Battn., and went over to France with a
draft for that Battn. and joined it in the trenches at Ypres. He went
through the fighting at Ploegsteert Wood and Festubert, and was killed
in action at Messines, 10 Nov. 1915; _unm._ He was buried in the
Military Cemetery near Ration Hill. His captain wrote that he had been
sent out with a party to repair the front trench, and that a piece of
shell hit him on the head killing him almost instantaneously.

 [Illustration: =Morton Augustus Cameron.=]

=CAMERON, PEDRO=, Corporal, No. 1685, 2nd Coy., 1/4th Battn.
Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), eldest _s._ of George Cameron y
Mackenzie, of Street Delicias 213, Valparaiso, Chili, by his wife,
(--), dau. of (--) Zanartie; _b._ Tocopilla, Chili; educ.
Valparaiso Liceum; came home in 1907 to finish his education with his
uncle, afterwards serving his apprenticeship at Kirkintilloch, near
Glasgow. On the outbreak of war enlisted in the 4th Battn. Seaforth
Highlanders (T.F.), Nov. 1914, proceeded with his regt. to the Front,
and was killed in action in France, in an attack on Hill 60, 9 May,
1915. Buried side by side with two of his cousins, who were killed in
the same action; _unm._

=CAMERON, THOMAS ALBERT=, L.-Corpl., 2nd Kimberley Regt., South
African Force, _s._ of Thomas Cameron, of Kimberley, Diamond
Miner, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late John Richardson, of
Frizington, co. Cumberland; _b._ Bridgefoot, Cumberland, 2 June.
1891; went to Kimberley with his parents in 1895, and was educ. at the
Boys' High School there. He afterwards returned to England and worked
as an electrician with Messrs. Dick, Kerr & Co., of Preston; but in
1911 returned to Kimberley, and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914,
joined General Botha's Army. He was killed in action at Trekkopjies,
German South-West Africa, 26 April, 1915. His Commanding Officer, Col.
Rodgers, wrote: "He was cut down in the act of doing a very brave deed.
Ammunition was urgently required at one of the most exposed trenches.
Volunteers were called for to carry the same, and without the slightest
hesitation your gallant husband came forward, took the case of
ammunition and had just put it down where wanted when he was killed. He
died without any pain. We all--officers and men--mourn with you in your
loss. His conduct was such that I, in my official report to the Officer
Commanding, brought his name to official notice, as in my opinion such
a deed of gallantry deserved recognition." He played for Oldham in the
Northern Rugby Union. He _m._ at Preston, 9 March, 1910, Grace,
dau. of the late Alexander White, of Frizington, Cumberland, and had
two sons: Thomas Alexander, _b._ Frizington, 9 May, 1911, and John
Head, _b._ Kimberley, South Africa, 12 Sept. 1914.

=CAMERON, WILLIAM MATHESON=, Lieut., A Coy., 2nd Battn. Transvaal
Scottish, yst. _s._ of Duncan Cameron, of Balbair, Edderton,
Ross-shire, Bank Agent at Tain, Ross-shire (_d._ Nov. 1915);
_b._ Thurso, 17 June, 1870; educ. Tain Royal Academy, and
George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and entered the Commercial Bank,
Glasgow, leaving it on the outbreak of the South African War to join
the Imperial Yeomanry. He served throughout that war, was given a
commission as Lieut., and received two medals and five clasps. After
the war he settled in Johannesburg, where he was secretary to the
manager of the Angelo Section of the East Rand Proprietary Mines, and
on the outbreak of the European War volunteered and was appointed
Lieut. in the Transvaal Scottish. He served under General Botha in
German West Africa, and was killed in action by a shell, at Trekkopjis,
on the morning of 26 April, 1915. He _m._ (--), dau. of John
Munro, Manager for Barnato Bros., and ex-President of the Transvaal
Chamber of Mines, and left a dau., 

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