Last Post - Flying Officer Laurence Emmett Cameron

Source: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers

In Memory of
Flying Officer LAURENCE CAMERON

J/39328, Royal Canadian Air Force
who died age 22
on 10 October 1944
Son of Clauson and Mary Cameron, of Verdun, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Remembered with honour
HARROGATE (STONEFALL) CEMETERY

Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

 

www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=2623432

Flying Officer Laurence Emmett Cameron was from Verdun, Quebec, he trained as a Navigator. He crewed up with Sergeant Horace Roger Latham who attended #3 Bombing and Gunnery School with many of the airmen in this site. On October 10, 1944 the Halifax aircraft flown by his crew, #LL 501 from 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit (believed to be at Sandtoft in Yorkshire. Sandtoft assumed this role as of Feb. 20th 1944 until Oct 11, 1945. It was a satellite to No. 11 Base, Lindholme.) crashed. The crew were returning from a night cross-country exercise when they mistook a bombing range for an airfield. The aircraft went out of control at a low altitude and sank into the mouth of the River Trent. Flying Officer Cameron is the son of Caluson and Mary Cameron.

Known crew members include:

Cameron, Laurence Emmett F/O(N)

Sgt C.B. Greer

and Sgt H.R. Latham .

Sergeant Horace Roger Latham is remembered at Runnymede. Flying Officer Navigator Cameron and Clifford Barton Greer are buried in the Stonefall Cemetery at Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. Flying Officer Cameron is burried in Sec. G. Row B. Grave 14. Over 600 Canadian airmen from World War II are buried at Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery.

Click here to read the ""They Shall Grow Not Old" entry for Flying Officer Laurence Emmett Cameron.

The final image is the certificate issued by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in memory of Flying Officer Laurence Emmett Cameron.

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