CAMERON, Ivan McLeod
| Service Number: | 24225 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Wing Commander |
| Last Unit: | No. 110 Squadron (RAF) |
| Born: | Bealiba, Victoria, Australia, 11 April 1908 |
| Home Town: | Bealiba, Central Goldfields, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Maryborough High School and Geelong College, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Pilot |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Kiel, Germany, Near Muster, 28 September 1939, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Germany |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bealiba WW2 Honour Roll, Dunolly & Bet Bet Shire War Memorial Clock Tower, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 28 Sep 1939: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Wing Commander, 24225, No. 110 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Alexander and Isabel Louise Cameron, of Bealiba, Victoria, Australia.
VICTORIAN PILOT MISSING
MELBOURNE, Saturday.
Acting Wing-Commander Ivan Mc-Leod Cameron, formerly of Bealiba (Vic.), was reported missing by the British Air Ministry after air operations on September 28. Aged 29, he is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron, of Bealiba Station, Bealiba, and a nephew Of Rev. D. A. Cameron (former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church). He was educated at Geelong College.
Australian
Air-Pilot
Missing
POSTED missing by the British Air Ministry, Acting Wing Commander Ivan McLeod Cameron, 31. formerly of Bealiba, and a nephew of a former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, Is believed to be the first Australian casualty in the European war.
Acting Wing Commander Cameron, who was reported missing after an air operation last week, received his early air training at Point Cook and went to England in 1927 to take up a four years' commission in the Royal Air Force. Later he did a two years' engineering course and was appointed permanently to the Royal Air Force.
After three years' service in Irak he went to England as a squadron leader and during the crisis in September was appointed acting wing commander. A son of the late Mr and Mrs A. Cameron, of Bealiba station, Victoria, he was educated at Maryborough High School add Geelong College.
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Ivan McLeod CAMERON was born in Bealiba, Victoria on 11th April, 1908
His parents were Alexander CAMERON & Isabel Louise SAWELL
Biography contributed by Timothy Hallam
Wing Commander Ivan Cameron is believed to be the first Australian to be killed in action in World War II.
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