CAMERON, James Whamond
| Service Number: | 437116 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 November 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 1 Operational Training Unit (RAAF) Nhill, Bairnsdale, East Sale |
| Born: | Angus, Scotland, 23 October 1914 |
| Home Town: | Parafield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Accidental, East Sale, East Sale, Sale, Victoria, Australia, 5 October 1943, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sale War Cemetery, Victoria Plot B Row B Grave |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bairnsdale Royal Australian Air Force Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 7 Nov 1942: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 437116, No. 1 Operational Training Unit (RAAF) Nhill, Bairnsdale, East Sale | |
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| 7 Nov 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 7 Nov 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 437116 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of James and Elizabeth Cameron; husband of Hazel Gwen Cameron, of Adelaide, South Australia.
DIES IN CRASH
MELBOURNE.-A flying instructor, who won the Distinguished Flying Cross last year, and a trainee pilot, were killed when an aircraft crashed in Victoria on a training flight. Details of the accident which occurred on Tuesday were officially announced today.
The victims were:
Flight-Lieutenant Frank Morcombe, D.F.C., 30, of Western Australia, flying instructor, and Sergeant James Whamond Cameron, 28, of Braeslde, South Australia, trainee pilot. Sgt. Cameron. a native of Scotland, was a mercantile marine engineer before enlisting in the R.A.A.F.
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