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Ewen Alexander CAMERON

Regimental number3040
Place of birthNalvime, Goulburn Valley, Victoria
SchoolMerrijig State School, Mansfield, Victoria
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationState school teacher
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation31
Height5' 6.25"
Weight154 lbs
Next of kinFather, D F Cameron, Lochiel, Mansfield, Victoria
Previous military serviceServed (as Lance Corporal) for 7 years in the 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment; left the district.
Enlistment date31 July 1915
Place of enlistmentMelbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistmentActing Corporal
Unit name21st Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/38/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 18 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollCorporal
Unit from Nominal Roll60th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 19 July 1916
Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll)*Spelt Ewen Alexander Cameron on NR
Place of death or woundingFleurbaix, France
Age at death32
Age at death from cemetery records32
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsV.C. Corner (Panel No 19), Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
169
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Donald and Janet CAMERON, "Lochiel", Mansfield, Victoria. 19
Family/military connectionsBrother: 3041 Sergeant John Allan CAMERON, Australian Army Pay Corps, returned to Australia, 11 May 1919.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Taken on strength, 60th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 26 February 1916.

Promoted Corporal, Ferry Post, 25 March 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.

Reported Missing, 19 July 1916.

Fate subsequently, 18 March 1917, determined as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.

Note on Red Cross File No 671107 'No trace Germany. Cert. by Capt. Mills 10-10-1919.'

Statement, 3158 Sergeanr F.H. LAN, 60th Bn (patient, 2nd London General Hospital, Southall, England), 23 October 1916: 'I knew Cameron personally and was with him on July at Fleurbaix. He was wounded in the leg by a bullet in No Man's Land and died that evening. I also saw him dead on the morning of the 20th.'

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Miscellaneous detailsRecorded incorrectly on Embarkation Roll as Euren Alexander CAMERON .
SourcesNAA: B2455, CAMERON Ewen Alexander
Red Cross File No 671107

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