From the News

Dated: September 27, 1917

WON THE MILITARY CROSS AT VIMY.

Captain W. Ross Cameron, M.C., who was wounded at Vimy Ridge, arrived home today for six months' further treatment in Canada.  He has been in hospital in England for several months, convalescing from gunshot wounds, shell shock and poison gas.

Capt. Cameron is the first of the original officers of the 208th Battalion to reach Canada.  He resigned his appointment in that unit last fall, reverted to the rank of lieutenant, and went overseas.  At Crowborough Military College in England he again qualified as a captain.   He went to France with the 50th Battalion and was wounded at Vimy Ridge in April after five weeks in the trenches.  During the memorable fighting at the ridge he personally made prisoners two groups of the enemy and carried in several wounded men under heavy fire.  It was for his work during this engagement that he won the Military Cross.

"I haven't a thing to say, expect that the war is going on the same as ever," said Capt. Cameron when seen by The Telegram on his arrival today.  He left later in the day for Barrie, where his wife and her brother reside.