LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant William Beauchamp CAMERON
Service No: 24908
Born: Toowoomba QLD, 19 February 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 17 February 1941
Unit: No. 5 Operational Training Unit, Tocumwal, NSW
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 5 Operational Training Unit Beaufort aircraft A9-126), off NSW Coast, 2 July 1943, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Kenneth Beauchamp Cameron and Eileen Mary Cameron, of Thallon, Queensland.
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 6, Sydney Memorial, Rookwood NSW
Remembered: Panel 112, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Brother of Sergeant Richard Beauchamp Cameron (404451)
Beaufort aircraft A9-126 went missing on a Moruya NSW – Mallacoota VIC offshore flight on 2 July 1943
The crew members of A9-126 were:
Flight Sergeant William Beauchamp Cameron (24908) (Navigator)
Pilot Officer Stanley Edward Carey (410947) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Donald James Davie (423666) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Laurence Harry Hellewell (30441) (Fitter Armourer)
Flight Sergeant Milton Kenneth Simpson (406880) (Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Charles William John Young (69679) (Fitter IIE)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9845, 245
Bibliography:
Parnell, N.M. (Neville M.) Whispering Death: A history of the RAAF’s Beaufighter Squadrons, AH & AW Reed, Terry Hills NSW, 1980
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1990