Thomas Waddell CAMERON

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CAMERON, Thomas Waddell

Service Number:	1297
Enlisted:	31 October 1914, Tatura, Vic.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia, 1890
Home Town:	Fitzroy, Yarra, Victoria
Schooling:	Grey Street State School, Hamilton,Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Grocer
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 8 August 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Panel 41,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

World War 1 Service

31 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1297, 14th Infantry Battalion, Tatura, Vic.
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 1297, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 1297, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
25 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1297, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
8 Aug 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1297, 14th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Alexander and Elizabeth CAMERON

NOK Sister, Mrs Flora Brown, 49 Moore Street, Fitzroy, Victoria

CAMERON.—Killed in action, at the Dardanelles, on the 8th August, Private Thomas Waddell Cameron, dearly beloved youngest son of the late Alexander and Elizabeth Cameron, and loving brother of Mrs. G. McIntosh (Newmarket), Mrs. H. Lawrence (Northcote), Mrs. H. Brown (Fitzroy), Mrs. J. Wilson (Cavendish), Alexander (Hamilton), Mrs. H. Tobias (Richmond), Mrs. R. Buckingham (Hamilton), Mrs. W. Forsyth (Montagup), and Christina, aged 24 years, of the 14th Battalion, late of Port Fairy and Hamilton.
A brave and noble son and brother.

CAMERON.—On the 7th August, at Anzac, Sergeant-Major Colin Henry Cameron, 8th Light Horse, of High Park, Kilmore, second son of Wilson Cameron, Balgartnie, Heidelberg, aged 23 years.

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