Impression sketch
of Lieutenant
Ervin Henry Cameron - by
Jamie. See original at:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=51639809
Of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, was son
Of a city analyst Charles Cameron - born
With registered name of Ervin Henry Cameron;
His mother Lucie Mac Namara Cameron.
Initially Ewan Cameron joined army
As a private, to be promoted to Lieutenant,
By 1915 became involved with recruitment
Rallying - only to meet his death 27 August
1915, on a train carriage in Ireland.
Found with a single shot to the head,
On a Dublin and South East Railway carriage,
Between stations of Greystones and Newcastle -
His death occurring from a self-inflicted
Single bullet, causing shock and hemorrhage.
The belief had been that Lieutenant
Cameron had become distressed by loss
Of friends on the frontline – sadly his parents
Had also lost a son some time before,
Drowned on a fishing lake near Athlone.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Lieutenant Shot on a Train. The Daily
Telegraph, [online]
28
August. P.4. Col 3. Available
at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11812558/Daily-Telegraph-August-28-1915.html
[Accessed: 28 August 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago -
Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 28 August 2015).
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