Mothers and widows badge : Mrs I I Cameron

Round, silver coloured Mothers' and Widows' badge. The obverse shows a raised image of a woman and part of a laurel wreath with the words 'FOR AUSTRALIA' in raised letters. The reverse has a hinged securing pin and raised lettering which reads 'ISSUED BY THE C'WLTH GOVT' and 'AMOR SYDNEY'. The number 'A24487' is impressed between the two inscriptions. Suspended by two securing rings from the bottom of the badge is a flat rectangular bar with a single brass seven pointed star in the centre.

Issued to Mrs Ivy I Cameron, the widow of NX52530 Staff Sergeant Samuel Edward Cameron of 2/19 Battalion. Cameron was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, on 4 May 1909 and enlisted in the AIF on 3 July 1940. He served in Malaya before becoming a prisoner of war of the Japanese, when he was sent to work on the Burma-Thailand Railway in Thailand. He was unofficially promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer while interned. Cameron returned to Australia after the war but died on 21 October 1945, from illness contracted while he was a prisoner, only days after his repatriation.