LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Gordon Oliver CAMERON
Service No: 425118
Born: Brisbane QLD, 4 August 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 31 January 1942
Unit: No. 83 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Coningsby
Died: Air Operations: (No. 83 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ND696), Germany, 8 February 1945, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Francis Patrick Denis and Florence Eliza Cameron, of Holland Park, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 119, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1707 hours on the night of 8 February 1945 Lancaster ND696 took off from Coningsby detailed to bomb the synthetic oil production plant at Politz. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take- off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft was shot down and crashed at Papendorf, approximately 26 miles north west of Stettin, Germany. Five of the crew members were killed and two became Prisoners of War.
The crew members of ND696 were:
Flight Lieutenant Derrick George Bates (174301) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Lieutenant Gordon Oliver Cameron (425118) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant Frederick William Cotton (1238674) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant James Robert Farrow (1339259) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flying Officer J Fletcher (157571) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner) PoW
Flight Sergeant D Hancock (1836447) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner) PoW
Pilot Officer Augustus Michael Burnand Hughes (189608) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/7/837