Cameron, Jack Godding (Warrant Officer 1)

Prisoner of War 1942-October-13

Male Head

Birth Date: 1920-May-02

Born: Toronto, Ontario

Parents:

Spouse: Gladys Cameron

Home: Toronto, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

214 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Ultor In Umbris Avenging in the shadows

Base

RAF Chedburgh

Rank

Warrant Officer 1

Position

Air Gunner (Rear)

Service Numbers

R/83636
PoW: 42710

Home

Toronto, Ontario

Target

Kiel Germany

Took off from Chedburgh at 18:45 in Stirling Mk I (Sqn code BU-R Bomber Command) on an operation to Kiel Germany.

Aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Felde, Schleswig-Holstein Germany.

Killed: Flight Sergeant Ronald Dempsay RCAF R/69265 KIA Kiel War Cemetery Coll. grave Plot 1. Row C. Graves 4-7. Flight Sergeant George Douglas Murray RCAF R/93062 KIA Kiel War Cemetery Coll. grave Plot 1. Row C. Graves 4-7. Flight Sergeant Gerard Francis Joseph Phalempin R/86743 KIA Kiel War Cemetery Plot 1. Row C. Grave 9. Flight Sergeant Ronald William Davison RAF KIA Kiel War Cemetery Coll. grave Plot 1. Row C. Graves 4-7. Sergeant Stuart Alexander Miller RAF KIA Kiel War Cemetery Plot 1. Row C. Graves 4-7.

POWs includes Cameron:

Warrant Officer 1st Class Cameron was safe back in the UK 1945-04-24

Past Tense, Charlies Story by Charlie Hobbs

Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock, page 260

Royal Air Force No 214 (FMS) Squadron RAF - Personnel - Personnel C

Crew or Other Personnel

Stirling BK599

Warrant Officer 1 Jack Godding Cameron RCAF

Warrant Officer 1 Cameron, Jack Godding (RCAF)
Air Gunner (Rear)
Prisoner of War
1942-October-13
cemetery unknown

Flight Sergeant Ronald William Davison RAFVR

Flight Sergeant Davison, Ronald William (RAFVR)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1942-October-13
cemetery unknown

Flight Sergeant Ronald Dempsay RCAF

Flight Sergeant Dempsay, Ronald (RCAF)
Observer
Killed in Action
1942-October-13
Kiel War Cemetery, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Warrant Officer John Douglas Fitzgerald "Jack" Melrose RAF

Warrant Officer Melrose, John Douglas Fitzgerald "Jack" (RAF)
Air Gunner (Mid-Upper)
Prisoner of War
1942-October-13
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Stuart Alexander Miller RAF

Sergeant Miller, Stuart Alexander (RAF)
Flight Engineer
Killed in Action
1942-October-13
cemetery unknown

Flight Sergeant George Douglas Murray RCAF

Flight Sergeant Murray, George Douglas (RCAF)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1942-October-13
Kiel War Cemetery, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Flight Sergeant Gerard Francis Joseph Phalempin RCAF

Flight Sergeant Phalempin, Gerard Francis Joseph (RCAF)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1942-October-13
Kiel War Cemetery, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Mission

Stirling Mk. l BK599

Bombing Kiel Germany 1942-October-13 to 1942-October-13

214 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Chedburgh

214 Federated Malay States Squadron RAF (Ultor In Umbris) RAF Chedburgh. Stirling I aircraft BK 599 BU-R was coned by searchlights, struck by flak and attacked by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Karl Fleischmann of the 6/NJG 3, crashing near Felde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Only two of the crew of seven managed to bale before the crash

Davison, Phalempin, Dempsay, Cameron, and Murray had previously survived the ditching of #22 Operational Training Unit Wellington Ic aircraft X 9701 LT-D 1942-06-25 returning from an operation over Germany. They survived adrift in their dinghy for several days until picked by air-sea rescue until 1942-07-01

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