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     Alexander Gordon Matheson Cameron M.D. was born in 1829.¹ He was the son of John Cameron and Isabella Kennedy.² Alexander Gordon Matheson Cameron M.D. married Edith Daly, daughter of Richard Martin Daly and Sarah O'Brien, in 1855 in Berbice, Demerara.¹ Alexander Gordon Matheson Cameron M.D. died in 1884 in Demerara.^2,1

     Alexander Cameron of the Glens [or Glenevis] married (?) Macdonald of Keppoch. Alexander Cameron of the Glens [or Glenevis] died circa 1613.

     Alistair Cameron was the son of Alexander Gordon Matheson Cameron M.D. and Edith Daly. Alistair Cameron, occupies a leading position in Barbados, as managing attorney for the several sugar estates of an old West-Indian firm, and is married, with a family of one son and four daughters.¹

     Allan Cameron was the son of Donald Dubh of Dawnie.

     Rev. Allan Cameron was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and (unknown) Cameron of Letterfinlay.¹ Rev. Allan Cameron died in theWest Indies; of yellow fever, whence he had accompanied his second brother, Donald. He died unmarried.¹

     Allan Ewan Cameron was the son of William Justin Beauchamp Cameron and Elizabeth Patricia Cameron.¹ Allan Ewan Cameron married Beatrice Huband-Smith.¹

     Angus Cameron was the son of John Cameron and Isabella Kennedy.¹ Angus Cameron emigrated to Australia.¹

     Arabella Adelaide Anita Cameron married Donald Charles Kennedy Cameron, son of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹

     Charles Cameron was the son of Donald Charles Kennedy Cameron and Clara Emily Holme.¹ Charles Cameron died unmarried.¹

     Colin Cameron was the son of William Henry Moore Cameron.¹ Colin Cameron died unmarried.¹

     Donald Cantrol Cameron was born in 1922.¹ He was the son of Isabel Butler.² Donald Cantrol Cameron died on 19 December 1943 in Australia? killed whilst serving as a Leading Aircraftman in the R.A.A.F.¹ He was buried in Plot A. Row B. Grave 11. Rockhampton War Cemetery.¹

     Donald Charles Cameron was born in 1815 in Castle Orgueil, Jersey.¹ He was the son of John Cameron and Isabella Kennedy. Donald Charles Cameron was educated at Edinburgh University.² He married Margaret Anne Moore, daughter of Peter Moore and Marie Francois Adele Serene, on 8 May 1844 in Berbice, British Guiana. Donald Charles Cameron emigrated in October 1852 to Queensland, Australia, The following year his wife and family followed on the S.S. Great Britain

The Camerons took up Native Creek and later Berremboke stations, north-west of Geelong.^3,4 He died on 25 October 1872 in Home Creek, Barcoo, Queensland, he had become ill and been taken by horse drawn dray to Springsure to consult a German doctor but nothing could be done for him.^5,6 He was buried in Home Creek.

     Donald Charles Cameron was born in 1745 or 1746 tradition has it that he was named after Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender) who was staying with his parents the night the child was born. It is also said that he was the Prince's god-son. He was the son of Ewan Cameron of Dawnie or Glen Nevis. Donald Charles Cameron married (unknown) Cameron of Letterfinlay.

     Donald Charles Cameron was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and (unknown) Cameron of Letterfinlay.¹

     Sir Donald Charles Cameron KCMG, DSO was born on 19 November 1879 in Brisbane, Queensland.² He was the son of John Cameron and Sarah Annie Lodge.¹ He was educated at Toowoomba and Brisbane Grammar schools and at 18 became a clerk in the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Co., of which his father was chairman of directors.

In 1899 Cameron went on a tour of Europe and Asia. He was in China during the Boxer Rebellion and after attaching himself to an American infantry regiment which had been dispatched from Manila, accompanied it to Peking. He returned to Australia in 1901, volunteered for service in the South African War, and on 19 March was commissioned lieutenant in the 6th (Queensland Imperial Bushmen) Contingent. He reached Cape Town in May and for the next year participated in patrolling and mopping-up operations in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony. On 16 June he risked his life to rescue a wounded trooper and was mentioned in dispatches. His unit was disbanded in June 1902.

In 1902-14 Cameron, with his brothers, managed the family property, Kensington Downs, near Longreach, and was involved in their associated pastoral and other business activities. He visited Europe and the United States of America in 1903.³ Sir Donald Charles Cameron KCMG, DSO married Evelyn Stella Jardine on 18 February 1914 in St. John's Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane.² Soon afterwards he toured China and Japan; he had just returned home when World War I broke out. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 30 September and was appointed captain in the 7th Light Horse Regiment; on 17 November he transferred to the 5th L.H.R. and embarked for Egypt in December as second-in-command of 'C' Squadron. From 20 May 1915 until the evacuation his regiment fought as infantry at Gallipoli. Cameron was wounded on 9 June and again, quite severely, on 28 June in the heroic but fruitless attack on Turkish trenches known as the Balkan Gun Pits. This wound was to trouble him for the rest of his life as removal of the bullet which had entered just below his ribs was considered too hazardous.

Cameron was promoted major on 9 September and rejoined his unit in Egypt on 3 January 1916. After serving in the Suez Canal zone he crossed into Sinai in April and for the next ten months commanded his squadron in numerous patrols and skirmishes; he fought in the battle of Romani on 4-5 August. In February 1917 the light horse advanced into Palestine and took part in the battles of Gaza and in operations and patrols in the Wady Ghuzze. Cameron was promoted lieut-colonel on 30 October and took command of the regiment which he led in the attack on Beersheba and the advance on Jerusalem.

In the early months of 1918 he went to England on leave, returning in April to resume command for the offensives against the retreating Turks which ended in their capitulation at Ziza on 30 October. Here Cameron was faced with the task of protecting the enemy force from Allied Bedouin troops while he arranged the surrender. For service in the Palestine campaign he was mentioned in dispatches three times, awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Order of the Nile, and appointed C.M.G. He was an able commanding officer with a gift for obtaining 'machine-like discipline' from his men without having to demand it; morale in his regiment was always high. The writer Ion Idriess, who served under him, remembered him as 'a nuggety chap, not very tall, with a rugged face that (broke) easily into a smile'; in action he was'never flustered' and was a 'cool but a quick thinker'.

After demobilization Cameron returned to Kensington Downs and in 1919-31 represented Brisbane for the National Party in the House of Representatives. Ill health forced his retirement but he was Nationalist member for Lilley in 1934-37; he contested the Senate election in 1937 but was defeated. As a parliamentarian he represented Australia at the League of Nations Assembly in 1923 and sat on the joint select committee on Commonwealth electoral law and procedure in 1926-27. A tireless worker, he always had the interests of ex-servicemen at heart; and in parliament was a leading spokesman for the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia; when a history of the 5th L.H.R. was printed in 1926, he paid the publishing costs and presented a copy to every member of the regiment. He commanded the 14th L.H.R. in 1921-24, was president or patron of many social organizations and hospitaller and almoner of the Order of St John in Australia. He was appointed K.C.M.G. in 1932. In World War II he served as chairman of the New South Wales recruiting drive committee for the Royal Australian Air Force.

After the war Cameron lived in retirement in Sydney and Brisbane and towards the end of his life he and his wife were hospitalized in Brisbane; she predeceased him, as did their only daughter.³ Sir Donald Charles Cameron KCMG, DSO died on 19 November 1960 at the age of 81 and was cremated with Presbyterian forms. In accordance with his wishes his ashes were buried near the grave of his grandfather in the family cemetery on Home Creek station near Barcaldine.^1,2

     Donald Charles Kennedy Cameron was born in 1857 in Native Creek.² He was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ Donald Charles Kennedy Cameron married Arabella Adelaide Anita Cameron.³ Donald Charles Kennedy Cameron married Clara Emily Holme, daughter of Rev. T. Holme, on 20 April 1892 in All Souls, Leichhardt, New South Wales.⁴

     Capt. Donald Colin Cameron was the son of Ewen Cameron and Mary McIver.¹ Capt. Donald Colin Cameron died in December 1883 in Tallisker, Syke.¹

     Eliza Cameron was born on 7 August 1852.² She was the daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ Eliza Cameron died of diptheria on the voyage to Australia. Buried on St. Vincent.¹

     Elizabeth Patricia Cameron was the daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ Elizabeth Patricia Cameron is also recorded as Aunt Bea.¹ She married William Justin Beauchamp Cameron.¹

     Ewan Cameron of Dawnie or Glen Nevis was the son of Allan Cameron. In 1746 knighted by Prince Charles after the battle of Falkirk. He led the Cameron Clan in the last disastrous Stuart rising.²

     Ewen Cameron was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and (unknown) Cameron of Letterfinlay.¹ Ewen Cameron married Mary McIver, daughter of Rev. Colin McIver and Anne McLeod.² A sheep-farmer in Glenelg and subsequently in Tallisker, Skye.¹

     Ewen Cameron M.D. was born in Castle Orgueil, Jersey.² He was the son of John Cameron and Isabella Kennedy.¹ In 1849 he was in Berbice for a sent a sample of Urari (curare) poison in a gourd to Edinburgh University.³ Ewan Donald Cameron, holds a junior post on one of the estates of the Hon. V.A. Wolseley, in Demerara.⁴ Ewen Cameron M.D. died s.n.p.¹

     Garfield Cameron married Michael ? Mabel Sissons.¹

     Helen Patricia Cameron was the daughter of William Justin Beauchamp Cameron and Elizabeth Patricia Cameron.¹ Helen Patricia Cameron died unmarried.¹

     Isabella Harriett Cameron was born on 19 July 1845 in Sheldon House, Berbice, British Guiana. She was the daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore. Isabella Harriett Cameron travelled on 16 October 1853 to Melbourne, Australia; on the S.S. Great Britain.¹ She married James Crombie, son of David Guillan Crombie and Janet Campbell (Jessie) Webster, on 1 December 1869 in the Presbyterian Church, Springsure, Queensland.² Isabella Harriett Cameron died on 3 January 1921 in Oriel at the age of 75 (recorded in the Tree as 20 February 1921).

     James Cameron was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ James Cameron died in Victoria in infancy.¹

     Jane Cameron was born in 1854 in Native Creek, Australia.¹ She was the daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore.¹ Jane Cameron died in infancy.¹

     Jean Catherine Orr Cameron was born on 9 December 1913.¹ She was the daughter of Garfield Cameron and Michael ? Mabel Sissons.² Jean Catherine Orr Cameron married Robert Lundy Grout, son of James Bell Lundy Grout and Helen Buell Kinney, on 14 August 1937 in St. Paul's Church, Knowlton, Quebec.² Jean Catherine Orr Cameron died on 23 May 1996 at the age of 82.¹

     Jephson Beauchamp Cameron was born in 1911.² He was the son of Allan Ewan Cameron and Beatrice Huband-Smith.¹ Jephson Beauchamp Cameron died in 1989.²

     John Cameron was born in 1773 in Dawnie, Kilmany. He was the son of Donald Charles Cameron and (unknown) Cameron of Letterfinlay. Enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders, he then purchased a commission. He was stationed for a time with the garrison on Jersey, where his two eldest sons were born. Later he retired and took a lease of the farm of Lundavra in Lochaber and subsequently of Lianassie in Kintail. The Australian Dictionary of Biography notes that he was with the 79th Highlanders at Waterloo.^1,2,3 John Cameron married Isabella Kennedy. John Cameron died on 30 April 1853 in Lianassie, Kintail.²