Group portrait of sergeants of No 17 course, No 1 Wireless and Air Gunners School. Identified, ...

Accession Number P04804.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made Australia: Victoria, Ballarat
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of sergeants of No 17 course, No 1 Wireless and Air Gunners School. Identified, left to right, back row; 416185 Douglas Philemon Gelven Marshall, 2 Squadron; 416389 Colin Samuel Temby, 114 Squadron, of Tailem Bend, SA. Temby was killed in a flying battle on 23 January 1944 in Italy; 416453 Leonard George Peake, 7 Operational Training Unit; 403880 Percy Hart Sara, 460 Squadron; 412021 Bryan Alphonsus McConnell DFM, 107 Squadron, of Clarence River, NSW. McConnell was killed in a flying battle on 6 January 1944 in England; 415002 Flying Officer William John Woods, 467 Squadron, of Victoria Park, WA, (lost on operations over Germany on 20 September 1944). Front row: 412071 Gregory Howard Pascoe DFC, 550 Squadron; 406814 Raymond Kenneth Saunders, 432 Squadron, of East Guildford, WA. Saunders was killed in a flying battle on 16 December 1943 in Holland; 416504 Hedley John McWaters, 201 Flight; 8063 Farquharson Proctor, 464 Squadron, of Brighton, Vic. Proctor was killed in a flying battle on 6 December 1942 in Eindhoven, Holland. 416436 Raymond Haines Leonard, 156 Squadron, of Berri, SA. Leonard was killed in a flying battle on 11 September 1944 in Germany.