Cameron, Alexander Allan (Warrant Officer 1st Class)

Prisoner of War 1944-March-03

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Service

RCAF

Unit

148 (SD) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
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Base

RAF Gambut Libya

Rank

Warrant Officer 1st Class

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Service Numbers

R/110909
PoW: 5653

Target
Google MapSOE Italy

Took off from Gambut Libya on a special parachuting mission in support of the Italian resistance.

Just before the jump the aircraft was hit by flak and came down at Ancona, Italy.

Killed: F/Lt James Harold Botham RAF pilot KIA Ancona War Cemetery, Plot IV. Row K. Grave 17. Warrant Officer Class 2 John Caldwell Calhoun, RCAF R/84954 KIA Ancona War Cemetery, Plot IV. Row K. Grave 16. Flying Officer Henry George Lancaster RAF KIA Ancona War Cemetery Plot IV. Row K. Grave 15. Flight Sergeant John Walter Sole RAF KIA Ancona War Cemetery Plot IV. Row K. Grave 13. Sergeant William Ernest Thurnall RAF KIA Ancona War Cemetery, Plot IV. Row K. Grave 14.

POWs includes Cameron: Flight Sergeant John Vaux Collett RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Flying Officer John Joseph O'Neill RAF KIA camp not listed. WO Cyril Woodington RAF POW Stalag 357 Kopernikus.

I was unable to locate one of the observers (Flight Sergeant Benjamin James Owen RAF) anywhere in the record.