Cameron, George Alexander Duncan (Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1943-April-29

Sergeant George Alexander Duncan Cameron RCAF

Birth Date: 1914

Born:

Parents: Son of Donald John Cameron, and of Elizabeth Cameron, of Bardowie, Stirlingshire.

Spouse:

Home: Bardorwie, Sterlingshire, England

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

458 (TB) Sqn- Squadron (RAAF)
We Find and Destroy

Base

RAF Shallufa, Egypt

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Navigator

Service Numbers

R/111309

Home
Google MapBardorwie, Sterlingshire, England
Memorial Location
Google MapMalta War Memorial
Panel 11 Column 2

Aircraft took off from Luqa, Malta at 20:15 dispatched on a shipping search of the seas west of Sicily.

At 02:23 a weather report was received from the aircraft. The aircraft failed to return.

Killed includes Cameron: Warrant Officer Class 2 Gordon John Banks RCAF R/84883 KIA Naples War Cemetery Italy grave III. N. 11. Warrant Officer Class 2 Joseph Robert Grasley RCAF R/86232 KIA Malta Memorial Panel 10, Column 2. Warrant Officer Class 2 Norman Albert Stelter RCAF R/105554 pilot KIA Malta Memorial Panel 11, Column 1. Warrant Officer Class 2 Robert Morris Westman RCAF R/101306 pilot KIA Agira Canadian War Cemetery, Sicily grave C, H, 369. Flight Sergeant Robert Douglas Armour RAAF KIA Catania War Cemetery, Sicily grave I. K. 43.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Wellington LB169

Warrant Officer 2 Gordon John Banks RCAF

Warrant Officer 2 Banks, Gordon John (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-April-29
Naples War Cemetery, Naples, Italy

Sergeant George Alexander Duncan Cameron RCAF

Sergeant Cameron, George Alexander Duncan (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1943-April-29
Malta War Memorial, Malta

Warrant Officer 2 Joseph Robert Grasley RCAF

Warrant Officer 2 Grasley, Joseph Robert (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1943-April-29
Malta War Memorial, Malta

Warrant Officer 2 Norman Albert Stelter RCAF

Warrant Officer 2 Stelter, Norman Albert (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-April-29
Malta War Memorial, Malta

Warrant Officer 2 Robert Morris Westman RCAF

Warrant Officer 2 Westman, Robert Morris (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-April-29
Agira Canadian War Cemetery, Enna, Italy

Mission

Wellington MK Vlll LB169

Bombing 1943-April-29 to 1943-April-29

458 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Luqa, Malta
458 Australia Squadron (We Find and Destroy). Wellington LB169 took off from RAF Luqa at 2018 hours on the night of 29/30 April 1943 to carry out a shipping search off western Sicily. At 0223 hours a weather report was received at base from the aircraft. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft and it failed to return from the mission. Casualties of the entire crew included: RAAF Flt. Sgt. R.D. Armour (gunner); and RCAF W/O II's G.J. Banks (special equipment (radar) operator), J.R. Grasley (wireless operator), N.A. Stelter (second pilot), and R.M. Westman (pilot); and RCAF Sgt. G.A.D. Cameron (navigator).