Hello, Camerons. I'm both a former US Navy Yeoman 2nd Class (basically, a
secretary/admin) (those who took care of records were - and I say were because I got out
in 1980 and dont' know if things have changed - called Personnelmen. I'm also a
Cameron descendant (Thomas Cameron and Ann Donald, married 1849 Scotland). So this is
doubly interesting to me. Anne Godfrey
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Moira Cameron, who is the first woman to serve as a Yeoman Warder at
the Tower
of London, Monday September 3, 2007, joining the 35 guards who protect the Crown
Jewels. Cameron, a Warrant Officer Class 2 who joined the army at age 16, and
now joins the Yeoman Warders, known as Beefeaters, as the first woman to serve
here since the corps was created in 1485. AP Photo/Cathal McNaughton
http://www.sacbee.com/857/story/358159.html
I love it! Thanks for posting. I read of such on the fly, but did not realize
it was a CAMERON! This is so cool. My daughters Laura and Jennifer are going
to hear of this, likewise for my sisters, Christine, Heather and Allison as well
as the world full of Cameron lassies! Aye, a Scots at that! A thousand loud
cheers as our good friend Archie Mackinnon from Guelph, Ontario, Canada would
cry ... my neighbour both we are ... Isle of Tiree, Scotland descendants!
Slainte, Scott
http://jscottcameron.blogspot.com Aye, blog is a wee behind, but
I have been very busy.
Check out Moira Cameron's links at
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/imgrss/events/wl/090407femalebeefeate and
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=SUNA...
UNA:en&q=moira+cameron+yeoman+argyll
Yeoman Warder Moira Cameron, the first female Beefeater starts work at the Tower
of London, September 3, 2007. A 42-year-old Scottish woman became the first
female 'Beefeater' on Monday, taking up her post as a guardian of Britain's
Tower of London. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters). Moira is the first female guardian
of the Tower of London in the Beefeaters' 522-year history started her new job
on Monday. Cameron, 42, from Argyll in Scotland, beat five men to secure the
coveted position.Aye, a Scots at that, all the better being from Argyll where my
family is from! Anyone know where in Argyll?
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YO, WOMAN! For the first time in its 522 years, a woman began work on Monday
as a member of the Yeomen of the Guard who act as warders at the Tower of
London. Because one condition for joining the Guard is a continuous period of 20
years in the armed forces, reaching at least the rank of staff sergeant, it is
only recently that women have become eligible to join the warders' ranks. Most
papers that reported the event jokingly called the new member, Moira CAMERON, a
yeowoman, no doubt believing they had invented it. But it turns out to have a
long history - the OED's first example is from 1852. It became more widely known
during the First World War when women began to serve in the US Navy. They had
the official rank of Yeoman (F), "F" denoting female, as you would guess. An
informal term was "yeomanette", which
the women hated; "yeowoman" was a common alternative. The last member of the
group, Charlotte WINTERS, died only last March at the age of 109. Both
"yeomanette" and "yeowoman" vanished after the War except in
reference to this
period. Among other meanings, yeoman was the name given to a superior servant in
a noble or royal household, one who often ate meat (in Old English, humbler
servants were called loaf-eaters, who mainly subsisted on bread). Such well-fed
menials
were derisively named "beef-eaters" and this is the source of the famous
nickname of the members of the Yeoman of the Guard, who acquired it in the
seventeenth century. These days they carry it with pride.
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