Collage comprising photographs of RAAF enlisted men, in alphabetical order, who participated in ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Geraldton
Accession Number P04586.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Geraldton
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Collage comprising photographs of RAAF enlisted men, in alphabetical order, who participated in No 18 Course 4 SFTS (Service Flying Training School) pilots course at Pearce Aerodrome, Cunderdin, Geraldton, WA, in 1941. Identified are top row: 415109 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) James Peter Awcock; 415111 Flt Lt Thomas Robert Bennett; 415068 Pilot Officer (PO) Francis Reginald Bright; 406992 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Alfred William Buxton; 415119 PO John Yorke Clarke; 415100 Flt Lt Lionel James Christensen DFM; 415023 Flying Officer (FO) Henry Douglas Dargie; 415101 Flt Lt William Frederick De Passey; 415125 Flt Lt Charles Norrel Doehring; 415126 Flt Sgt John Joseph Egan. Second row: 415127 Flt Lt Edward John Elliot DFC AFC; 415128 Flt Lt Robert Keith Filsell; 415129 Flt Lt Athol Campbell Forbes; 415131 Flt Lt John Robert Gardner DFC; 415132 Flt Sgt Robert Ingersole Gates; 406889 Flt Sgt Henry Harrington Gaunt; 415134 Flt Lt Kenneth Gillmore; 416528 Corporal Colin Edward Graham; 415138 Sergeant (Sgt) Leonard Leslie Grist; 296651 Flt Lt John Luke Hannagan. Third row: 415143 Flt Lt Charles Gordon Hawke; 406977 Flt Sgt Edmund Geoffrey Holden; 415085 Sgt Duncan Eric Hordacre; 415146 Flt Lt George Raymond Houston; 415147 Flt Lt Ronald Geoffrey Howe; 416580 FO Mervyn Ross Jacobs; 415154 Flt Lt Roland King, DFC; 415155 Flt Lt Richard Kukura; 415156 Flt Lt James William Langridge; 415159 FO Gordon Albert Lucas. Fourth row: 415035 Flt Lt Walter Douglas Main; 415161 Flt Sgt Alexander Edward Manners; 415163 Flt Lt Cyril Alfred Manning; 415168 WO James Francisco Moran; 415169 WO Claudis William Murtha; 415087 Flt Lt Frederick Charles McKenzie; 415088 Wallace Cyril Nelson; 415176 Flt Sgt Bernard Aloysius O’Hara; 415177 Flt Lt John James Osmond DFC, prisoner of war (POW); 415090 Sgt Jack Elliott Parkes. Fifth row: 415193 Flt Lt Daniel Rees CGM; 415183 Flt Lt James Thomas Robson DFC; 415186 Sgt Louis Frederick Samson; 415055 Flt Lt Colin McTaggart Shannon DFC; 415188 Flt Lt Sydney Robert Twyfold Sippe; 415195 Flt Lt Pearce Edgar Taplin; 415094 WO Thomas Gordon William Taylor; 416774 Flt Sgt Walter Henry Teede; 415201 FO Horace Milward Wade; 415204 Flt Lt Hugh Comins Warren, DFM. Bottom row: 406892 Sgt William Holden White; 415208 FO Frank Watson Wildy.