Alexander Cameron

Alexander Cameron was a butcher in Redan, <1923-1946.

History
Alexander Cameron was born in Ballarat East in 1885, the son of Murdoch McKenzie Cameron and Mary Jane Richards.

He joined the AIF on 21 July 1915. On his enlistment papers he is described as being 5 ft 7 ins, weighing 10 stone, blue eyes, with dark curly hair. After training at Broadmeadows and Castlemaine, Cameron was sent to Egypt with the 9th Light Horse Regiment. In February 1916 he was hospitalised with influenza, and again in January 1917. In July 1917 he was again hospitalised with defective vision. In January 1918 he was sent to hospital with malaria, and after convalesence he was sent to the army's cookery school in November 1918. Further attacks of malaria eventually led to his discharge back to Australia in June 1919, as medically unfit with clinical malaria.

Alexander Cameron married Marion Helen Wilkins in Victoria in 1922. Their daughter, Dorothy, was born in 1926. Marion, born 1891 at Miners' Rest, was the daughter of William Wilkins and Helen Tait.

Cameron operated a cash butcher shop at 705 Sebastopol Street, Redan, from at least 1928. He died in Ballarat on 20 February 1946. He was buried in the Ballarat New Cemetery on 21 February 1946, Private F, Section 3/2, Grave 03.

Mrs Cameron and disabled daughter Dorothy continued to live in the adjacent house until their passing. Dorothy died in January 1969. Mrs Marion Cameron outlived her daughter by many years. Still living at the address in 1967. She died in December 1977. Both are buried with Alexander.