THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION ALBERTA-NWT COMMAND www.abnwtlegion.com 111 Cameron, Alexander Alexander was born in Ponoka, Alberta on February 12, 1917. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a Corporal with the Military Police at Western Air Command Headquarters in Vancouver from 1943 until the end of World War Two. One of his memories was compensating for the scarcity of electrical outlets by running a big commercial floor polisher while another airman held its plug in the outlet in the ceiling. Alexander passed away on December 24, 1990. His brother George also served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War Two and was killed in action. Cameron, George George was born in Ponoka, Alberta in 1917. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a Pilot Officer Air Gunner attached to #630 (RAF) Squadron. George was killed in action on August 18, 1944 when his Lancaster aircraft was shot down during a daylight flight to L’IsleAdam in France. He has no known grave. His name is inscribed on the Runnymede Memorial in Englefield Green, Egham in Surrey, England. George was thirty years old. His brother Alexander also served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War Two. Cameron, Kenneth Edgar “Ken” Ken was born in Pinkerton, Ontario on August 2, 1886. He tried to join the Army when he was 14, sailed as a cabin boy on the Great Lakes when he was 15, and worked as fireman on the CPR when he was 17. He went to England when he was 18 and returned to Canada when he was 22 to run a logging locomotive in Fernie, BC. Ken worked on cattle ranches in Alberta, Idaho, and Montana before joining the U.S. Marine Corps at age 26 and serving in the Philippines, Beijing, China, and Cuba. After discharge, Ken lived in Mankota, Saskatchewan until he enlisted in the Army in 1916. He was wounded in France, gassed at Hill 70 and was with the Army of Occupation in Germany until June 1919. Back in Canada, he lived in Kincaid, Mankota, and Wrixon in Saskatchewan. He rejoined the Army in 1940 and served in Eastern Canada and on the West Coast until his discharge in 1945. Ken moved to Lacombe, Alberta in 1950, became an active member of The Royal Canadian Legion and passed away in Lacombe in 1958.
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