Cecil Aylmer Cameron [SEP] date of death
Cecil Aylmer Cameron
Major Cecil Aylmer Cameron (17 September 1883–19 August 1924) was a British Army officer and spymaster and also a central figure of a notable fraud trial of 1911.
The son of Colonel Aylmer Cameron VC, he was educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy, Bath College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1901.
In 1911 he and his wife Ruby were convicted of fraud in Edinburgh and sentenced to three years' imprisonment for attempting to
awarded the VC:
Further information.
He later achieved the rank of colonel and was Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1886 to 1888.
His son, Cecil Aylmer Cameron, was also a distinguished Army officer.
The medal.
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Regimental Museum of Queens Own Highlanders in Fort George, Highland, Scotland.
External links.
- Location of grave and VC medal "(Dorset)"
- British Medals