Background
Betty"s father, who was English, was a doctor in the Indian Army. Both his parents were with the British Government in India. Betty"s mother, also English, trained at Trinity College Dublin because at the time it was the only University that accepted women students.
Capable of speaking seven languages she travelled to the United States. and later to Argentina.
Betty"s parents married in 1908 and had five children.
Her husband served in World War I in France in the Australian Army Medical Corps. He was gassed in Ypres and was totally and permanently incapacitated as a result.
Education
Born as Elizabeth Katherine Twynam-Perkins, she was educated at Fort Street Girls" High School, Sydney and obtained her Leaving Certificate.
Career
From 1938 to 1940 she was a lady cubmaster. Betty Cameron joined the Royal Australian Air Force (Royal Australian Air Force) in April 1941. In the, Cameron was trained as a wireless telegraph operator.
She then served in the Shipping Movement Branch of the Royal Australian Air Force before being transferred to Melbourne.
Early in 1942 she was stationed at Parkes to complete a navigation course (theory only) and was then posted to Fighter Section in Sydney. Here she worked underground in the tunnels made for the Eastern Suburbs Railway.
Promoted to corporal in May 1942, Cameron went to Melbourne on an officers course and then on the operations course. After completion she was posted to Eastern Area, Point Piper in the Operations Room and Intelligence.
After the war Betty Cameron joined the Wing which later became the Branch of the Royal Australian Air Force Association.
She has held various positions with the Branch including president, secretary and treasurer, and was the convenor of two national reunions. Foreign several years Cameron served on the Royal Australian Air Force Association State Committee and was Matron of Honour four times to the debutantes at the annual Royal Australian Air Force Ball as well as helping to train the debutantes and their partners.
Membership
Her other community work included being a member of the Mothers" Union of Australia and a voluntary driver at Concord Hospital. In 1978 she was made a life member of the Royal Australian Air Force Association.
