Service: Army – 2/23 Battalion
Service number: VX47636
Locality on Enlistment: Lorne
Duration of Service: 19 Jul 1940 – 19 Sep 1945
Prisoner of War: Yes
Honours: None for display
Date and Place of Birth: 15 Oct 1914 Mt Gambier, S.A.
Parents: Nicol Alexander CAMERON and Jane RIGNEY
Spouse: Doreen Margaret WHELAN
School/s: Colac High School
Occupation: Farmhand, Storeman, Transport driver
Date and Place of Death: 19 Jan 1975 Apollo Bay
Place of Burial: Apollo Bay Cemetery
NOTES: After Ewen was born in Mt Gambier the family moved to Colac. He was working as a farm hand in Apollo Bay when Duty Called and he enlisted in the AMF in 1940. He arrived in the Middle East and was captured in Tobruk in 1941. He was wounded in action with a gunshot wound to the left leg and was hospitalised in Derna, Bengahasi and then in Italy. He spent the remainder of the war as a Prisoner of War in Poland. He disembarked in Australia on 24 July 1945. On return Ewen worked for Trans Otway in Apollo Bay.