Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (504952 Spr. E. A. Cameron) good very fine £50-£70

Ernest A. Cameron (alias ‘John Cameron’) was born in Mattawa, Ontario, Canada in June 1893. He served during the Great War with the 3rd Field Company, Canadian Engineers on the Western Front. Sapper Cameron died as a result of shell gas poisoning, 29 July 1917. While he was in charge of a working party, repairing the front line trenches, in front of Loos on the night of 28/29 July 1917, the enemy threw over a number of gas shells. Before he could adjust his gas mask, he breathed in some of the gas. The party was dismissed and he returned to his billet. On the following morning he was taken to a dressing station and from there evacuated to No. 2 Canadian Field Ambulance. Sapper Cameron died about noon on the same day, and is buried in the Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery, France.