Cameron Clare "Cam" Hill

1920 - 1988  (68 years)

• Name	Cameron Clare "Cam" Hill
  Born	1920
  Gender	Male
  Military	WW2
  Residence	1941	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-116533
  Died	1988
  Buried	Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I116533	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Britton Louis Hill,   b. 11 Jun 1884, Brock, Ontario Co., Ontario ,   d. 14 Apr 1959, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Grace Mildred Huff,   b. 8 Dec 1888, Dresden, Kent Co., Ontario ,   d. 10 Jun 1943, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F29356	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean M.,   b. 1925,   d. 2001  (Age 76 years)
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F55217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Parachutes, prison camps and Red Cross parcels Waterloo woman tells the story of her dad, an airman who spent 900 days as a POW WATERLOO - On the evening of Oct. 8, 1942, Flight Sgt. Cameron Hill of Kitchener, a 21-year-old gunner and observer serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, clambered into his Wellington bomber with five crewmates for a night raid out on the desert airbase at El Alamein, about 100 kilometres east of Alexandria in Egypt. At about 3 a.m., the plane was shot down while flying over Tobruk in Libya. An engine caught fire and lost a propeller. The crew of six sent out an SOS and parachuted out, leaping into the dark desert sky while their plane, named G-George, hurtled in flames into the sand below. Four of the crew met by the wreck, and began to walk east, toward the British base 800 kilometres away. But injuries forced two to drop out and wait by the railway tracks to be picked up as prisoners. The other two embarked on an epic journey across the desert, making their way back to base after 27 days, subsisting on four tins of corned beef and water taken from the radiators of wrecked tanks and trucks. The fate of the final two crew members, an Australian pilot named Bowhill and Hill, the lanky, blue-eyed Kitchener boy, was unknown. A week after the crash, a letter came to Hill's parents at home on Simeon Street, with the dreadful news that their son was missing in action. It would be another five months before they learned he was still alive..... Thompson, C. (2018). Parachutes, prison camps and Red Cross parcels. TheRecord.com. Retrieved 11 March 2018, from https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8319602-parachutes-prison-camps-and-red-cross-parcels/

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - 1941 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth