RAAF blue cotton shirt : Pilot Officer E J Lincoln, 149 Squadron, RAF

Blue cotton collarless shirt with long sleeves with fold up cuffs. The neck of the shirt has three button holes to attach it to a collar. The shirt opens half way down the chest with three white buttons. The shirt has side vents and a rounded tail. The back of the shirt has a yoke across the shoulders and a centre pleat.

Worn by 426358 Pilot Officer Edward James Lincoln, a motor mechanic from Brisbane who enlisted on 20 June 1942. He served with 149 Squadron, RAF.
Pilot Officer Lincoln was a crewman of a Short Stirling MkIII bomber (serial EF188) which took off from Methwold airfield at 2315 hours on 23 June 1944 to plant mines in French coastal waters off Brest. They were shot down early the next morning, 24 June 1944 by German flak defences and their Stirling crashed in farmland the vicinity of Plougonvelin,18 kilometres from the city of Brest. The entire crew were killed. Lincoln was one of three Australians on board the bomber
Lincoln's remaining uniforms were sent home to his mother in Australia, who carefully preserved them.

• Collar for RAAF blue cotton shirt : Pilot Officer E J Lincoln, 149 Squadron, RAF