Norman Cameron

Norman was born on the Isle of Wight, where his father William was the vicar of the Holy Trinity Church. After William was sent to South Africa to be the Bishop of Cape Town, Norman was sent to Winchester Boarding School. He attempted to join the army in 1914 but was refused on medical grounds. He was successful in 1915 and he left New College, Oxford for Sandhurst.

After Sandhurst, he was commissioned in the Cameron Highlanders and went to France where he joined the 1st Battalion at the end of 1915. A foot injury he sustained at the Battle of the Somme all but ended his active military career. He did rejoin his Batallion in 1919 on the Rhine, but was sent home for medical reasons.

After the military, he rejoined Oxford and studied in history, and after completing his studied worked for the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum. Health issues, and the inheritance of land in Shetland, meant that he left that job and moved to Shetland in 1929. As a reservist, he rejoined his regiment in WWII and served in home stations and as as adjutant of the Shetland Home Guard.