The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount

Five: Surgeon Captain E. Cameron, Royal Navy, late Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (12569 Tpr., 70th Coy. 18th Imp. Yeo.); 1914-15 Star (St. Surg., M.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medal, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Surg. Lt. Cr., R.N.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (Surg.), mounted for display, good very fine and better (5) £380-420

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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Ewen Cameron was born in the Parish of Epworth in Lincolnshire. As a medical student, he attested for the Imperial Yeomanry on 22 February 1900. With the 70th (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry he served in South Africa between 6 April 1900 and 24 June 1901. After the war he continued his medical studies at Edinburgh University and gained the M.B. and Ch.B. in 1902. Service in the Royal Navy followed; being appointed Surgeon in 1906, Lieutenant Commander in 1914 and Commander in 1918, retiring in 1928 with the rank of Surgeon Captain. Sold with copied service papers and other research details.