Born 18 July 1908 in Inverness, Invesrness, Scotland [28]
Son of labourer Angus CAMERON and Christina MACDONALD [28]
He was born at 11:35am on Academy Street in Inverness [28]
In 1911 he was living with his parents, elder brother William and younger sister Annie at Smiths Buildings in Inverness [20]
Married Edith Eugene FIEGERT in 1935 in Perth, Western Australia [66]
Resided in Carnamah in late 1935 and 1936 and again in 1940 and 1941 [5: 21-Mar-1941] [19]
Farmhand in Carnamah for Water BODYCOAT [5]
Employee of the Carnamah District Road Board [5]
Farmhand in Carnamah for Hans HENNING-TVERMOES [5]
Member of the Five Gums Tennis Club in 1935-36, 1936-37 and 1939-40 [5: 20-Dec-1935] [89]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Maylands prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 8 September 1941 [16]
Private WX20026 in the Australian Army's 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Presumed to have been Killed in Action in Malaya on 11 February 1942 [16] [18]
Memorialised on the Singapore Memorial at the Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore [17]
Father of Christina, Kenneth, Brian and Elizabeth [5: 21-Mar-1941] [39: 1-Sep-1945]
Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'William Cameron' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 18 November 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/william-cameron-2 [reference list] |
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