A WORTHY RECORD.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 169, 17 July 1919, Page 6

A WORTHY RECORD.

PROMOTED FROM THE RANKS. LIEUTENANT H. CAMERON. ERRONEOUSLY REPORTED DEADTo return home after a worthy active war service, including internment in several German camps following capture after •having been wounded, to find that a number of your friends believed J'ou to be dead, was the experience of Lieutenant Hector Cameron, who returned to New Zealand in the transport Kigoma, and who arrived at Auckland yesterday morning. Lieutenant Cameron is a reservist in the Imperial Army, but being in New Zealand at the outbreak of the war enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and left as a corporal in the Main Body, attached to the First Battalion of the Sixth Haurakis. After serving on Gallipoli right up to the last lie was transferred with the New Zealand Division to France, and was attached to the -Second Battalion of the Auckland Infantry Regiment. Subsequently he qualified in England for bis commission, and was posted to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Regiment. He participated in the fighting at Arras and Passchendaele and at the second battle of the Somme in 1018. In this last action he was wounded, and after lying in the open for 48 hours was captured by the Germans and sent to Hamburg and later to another internment camp in Germany. He was reported killed in action, and this announcement was reported in the New Zealand Press. Three months later his parents were advised that lie was alive. He was released after the signing of the armistice. Lieutenant Cameron's parents live at Elgin, Scotland. Slecond-Lieutenant J. Williamson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Williamson, of Avondale, also returned to Auckland yesterday. He left New Zealand with *the Ninth Reinforcements. For conspicuous bravery at the battle of Messines in June' he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.