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Commander Donald Cameron VC (18 March 1916 – 10 April 1961) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He is one of three VC winners from the small town of Carluke in South Lanarkshire (population 7,000). The Rotary Club of Carluke have erected a millennium stone in the town market place to commemorate this. ==Details== Cameron was 27 years old, and a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. He had served in the Merchant Navy since the age of 17.〔United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Volume 80, 1954〕 On 22 September 1943 at Kåfjord on the Altafjord, North Norway, Lieutenant Cameron, commanding Midget Submarine X.6, and another lieutenant (Basil Charles Godfrey Place) commanding Midget Submarine X.7, carried out a most daring and successful attack on the German Battleship ''Tirpitz''. The small submarines had to travel at least 1,000 miles from base, negotiate a minefield, dodge nets, gun defences and enemy listening posts. Having eluded all these hazards they finally placed the charges underneath the ship where they went off an hour later, doing so much damage that the ''Tirpitz'' was out of action for months. The full citation was published in a supplement to the London Gazette of 18 February 1944 (dated 22 February 1944) and read: He achieved the rank of commander in 1955, and was in charge of HMS ''Dolphin'', the submarine base at Fort Blockhouse. Cameron married WRNS's member Eve Kilpatrick in 1940 and they had four children. Cameron's health deteriorated in the last years of his life and he was eventually admitted to Royal Hospital Haslar, Portsmouth, where he died on 10 April 1961. His remains were cremated at Portchester〔(Donald Cameron obituary )〕 and buried at sea from submarine HMS ''Thule'' on 13 April 1961.〔Winton, John (1978). ''The Victoria Cross at sea''. Michael Joseph, p. 230. ISBN 0718117018〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald Cameron (VC)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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