Donald Keith CAMERON

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Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	King Edward's Horse
Born:	Chudleigh, Tasmania, Australia, 1 May 1886
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 June 1967, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

Date unknown:	Involvement Captain, King Edward's Horse

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Born 1 May 1886, "Bentley" Chudleigh, Tasmania.

LG 3 September 1914. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 4 September 1914 King Edwards Horse.

Attached to Machine Gun Corps (Motor Machine Gun Service) 7 May 1915.

King Edwards Horse 29 May 1915.

Temp Captain 26 July 1915.

France 15 January 1917.

Appointed Transport Officer and acting Quartermaster 17 March 1917 to 17 November 1917.

Attached to HAC 9 April 1918.

Transferred to Cameron Highlanders (Special Reserve) 23 April 1918.

1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders 17 June 1918.

Acting Captain to 3 October 1918.

G.S.O. Staff Captain 4 January 1919 to 12 January 1920.

Army Headquarters Occupied Germany January 1919 to November 1919.

Relinquished Commission and granted rank of Captain 11 May 1920.

Mentioned in Despatches (General Plumbers Despatches from Italy) 28 May 1918.

Returned to Tasmania.

Returned to "Bentley" Chudleigh in 1931. Served in the Deloraine District as JP and Coroner 1933 & 34, M.H.A Wilmot 1934 - 37.

c1967 Nunawading, Victoria.

Note:

Hist: 62, 79, 87, 157, 161, 174, 198, 203, 208, 215, 338, App G.