Background
The son of Colonel Aylmer Cameron Venture capital, 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.
The son of Colonel Aylmer Cameron Venture capital, 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.
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
He refused to give evidence in his defence and served the full sentence. Following his release, a petition for a pardon was signed by, among others, five dukes, twenty privy councillors, and 126 generals. He received a full pardon and was restored to his rank of Lieutenant.
Under the codename EVELYN he was responsible for running spies in German-occupied France and Belgium from stations at Folkestone in England, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and Montreuil in France.
In 1918 he was transferred to the War Office in London, but as a fluent Russian-speaker was soon afterwards appointed Chief Intelligence Officer with the British Military Mission to Siberia during the Russian Civil War, for which he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Siberian War Honours of January 1920. In 1920 he returned to the War Office as a General Staff Officer in the Military Operations Directorate and also served in Ireland.
Cameron was found shot to death at Hillsborough Barracks in Sheffield in 1924.