MAJOR CAMERON'S STORY.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 45, 21 August 1924, Page 5

MAJOR CAMERON'S STORY.

(UNITED PRESS. ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 19th August. A famous case has been recalled by the death, from a revolver wound, at the Sheffield Barracks, of Major Cecil Aylmer Cameron. Cameron in 1911 was sentenced at Edinburgh- to three years' imprisonment for defrauding Lloyd's Insurance by claiming £6000 compensation for the loss of his wife's pearl necklace. Cameron refused.to give evidence and_ served the sentence. On his release he joined the army in France and showed wonderful gallantry in 1917. The King granted Cameron a full pardon and restored his rank. After his release from prison a petition asking for a retrial was signed by five dukes, twenty privy councillors, and 126 generals. It transpired that Cameron had acted innocently, his wife, when dangerously ill, confessing that she alone was guilty. Cameron had maintained . his silence to protect

■Major Cameron was mentioned four times in dispatches for his services in France, and _ was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in 1916 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1920. He was also a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, a Chevalier de Leopold, and an Officer of the Rising Sun. He served as GS O chief intelligence officer, with General Knoxs military mission to Siberia, to assist -Admiral Koltchak, from 1918 to 1920. He published a number of articles and reviews on Russian affairs