Britton Louis Hill

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208123868
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-116544

Britton — Thelma Mae Sitler. Thelma (daughter of Addison Abraham Sitler and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Berdux) was born 11 Aug 1903, Palmerston, Peel Township, Wellington Co., Ontario; died 30 Jan 1974, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Britton — Grace Mildred Huff. Grace was born 8 Dec 1888, Dresden, Kent Co., Ontario; died 10 Jun 1943, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Eugene Hill
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-116555

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• Name: Margaret Elizabeth Douglas
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-196117

Margaret — Douglas. [Group Sheet]

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• Military: WW2
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-116533
• Residence: 1941, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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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/

Cameron — Jean M.. Jean was born 1925; died 2001; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]