Outdoors portrait of 4353 Pte Graham Cameron, 3 Australian General Hospital (3 AGH) and later ...

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Accession Number P10514.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Place made Egypt
Date made c 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Outdoors portrait of 4353 Pte Graham Cameron, 3 Australian General Hospital (3 AGH) and later 10th Field Ambulance. Pte Cameron, a solicitor from Waverley NSW, enlisted on 21 April 1915 and embarked from Sydney aboard the RMS Mooltan on 15 May 1915. He served at Mudros on Lemnos Island with ith 3AGH and later in France where he was awarded the MM for rescuing wounded men from the battlefields near Warfusee Abancourt on 10-11 August 1918. Pte Cameron died of wounds on 17 September 1918 aged 30. Two of his cousins, Captain Rupert Howard Henderson, and Lieutenant Alan Dudley Henderson, both 7th Battalion, were killed on Gallipoli in 1915.