British War Medal 1914-20 (Major D. H. Cameron R.F.C.) good very fine £70-£90

Traynor Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2007 (when sold with an O.B.E. and a Delhi Durbar 1903 Medal).

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Donald Hay Cameron was born in August 1867 and educated at Uppingham and the R.M.A. Woolwich. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in July 1887, he transferred to the Indian Staff Corps in the rank of Lieutenant in July 1891, when he received an appointment in the Central India Horse. In 1902, however, he was appointed Adjutant of the Imperial Cadet Corps, in which capacity he qualified for the Delhi Durbar Medal in the following year and, having then assumed command of the Corps in 1906, he was placed on the Retired List as a Major in July 1911.

By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Cameron was employed by Messrs. Cox & Co., and acted as the bank’s military representative out in France later that year, but he did not qualify for the 1914 Star since he did ‘not serve on the establishment of a unit of the B.E.F.’ (his Medal Index Card refers). He was next appointed a Staff Officer in the War Office, rising to be a G.S.O. 2 in the Department of the Director-General of Military Aeronautics, which latter office dealt with home defence issues and in the selection of candidates for the Royal Flying Corps. For his services during the Great War Cameron was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 13 March 1918) and awarded the O.B.E. Placed on the Unemployed List in the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1919, he died in August 1932.

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