Lieutenant-Colonel Don Cameron
Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders

Cameron had managed a hard task with skill. He had commanded the unit through some of its best days, and through its darkest hours, and he had not failed the Regiment which had adopted him, and of which he had become a living part. His personality, with those of Kennedy, Graham, Tweedsmuir, Sutcliffe and Salmon, was deeply woven into the fabric of the unit.

(Farley Mowat, The Regiment, 369)

Born on 5 April 1911 in Lochiel, Ontario, Donald C. Cameron enlisted with the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders in 1926 and gained a commissioned two years later. He went overseas as a major in June 1940 and served as second-in-command of the Highlanders in England until he requested a posting to the front. He transferred to Italy in late 1943.

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