Private Hugh Alexander Cameron (1890-1917)

Private Hugh Alexander Cameron Veteran

Birth

22 Jun 1890

Willowdale, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Death

8 Jun 1917 (aged 26)

Epsom, Epsom and Ewell Borough, Surrey, England

Burial

Epsom Cemetery

Epsom, Epsom and Ewell Borough, Surrey, England Add to Map

Plot

K. 244.

Memorial ID

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1917 June Quarter death registration-

Name: Cameron, Hugh A.---Age: 26

District: Epsom (Volume & Page: 2a & 91)

Private Cameron died in the County of London War Hospital, in Epsom, of the wounds he'd sustained in battle on the field in France.

From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial-

Military Service:

Rank: Private

Service Number: 715369

Age: 26

Force: Army

Unit: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)

Division: 87th Battalion

A farmer by trade, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 30 Dec 1915 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Son of Alexander and Mary Sophia Cameron of Willowdale, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

Private Hugh Alexander Cameron is commemorated on Page 212 of Canada's First World War Book of Remembrance.

He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

And he is remembered with love and honour on his father and mother's family grave monument in the Rocky Mountain Cemetery in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.