Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookn 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., |