Group portrait of servicemen attending the Pass Out Dinner of 70 IIA Course at Ascot Vale. ...

Accession Number P04833.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Adamson, Edwin G
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made February 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

Group portrait of servicemen attending the Pass Out Dinner of 70 IIA Course at Ascot Vale. Identified, starting on the left hand side and working back: 404090 Aircraftman Class 1 (AC-1) Guy Montagu Freeman of North Quay, Qld; 26920 AC-1 Claude Harold Sachs of Waikerie, SA; 16942 AC-1 Ronald John Burnett of Perth, WA; 17306 AC-1 Frederick William Walker of Perth, WA; unidentified; 16947 AC-1 Alexander Joseph Lang of Perth, WA (standing); 17139 AC-1 Robert Oakover Fleay of Leonora, WA; 406476 AC-1 (later Sergeant) William John Percival Fletcher of Perth, WA (lost on operations over the United Kingdom on 13 September, 1942); unidentified; 16946 AC-1 (later Sergeant) Harry Holder of Kellerberrin, WA (died of disease in Western Australia on 22 November 1946); 17106 AC-1 John Arthur Ryalls of Bridgetown, WA; 26646 AC-1 Clem Edward Schultz of Lenswood, SA; unidentified visitor. Working down other side of table towards front of photograph: A31444 Leading Aircraftman George Alexander Carey of Perth, WA; unidentified; AC-1 Herd of WA; 16857 AC-1 Loyd George Faulkner of Porongurup, WA; 16786 AC-1 Walter Graham Wallace of Victoria Park, WA; 27087 AC-1 Evan Frank Jenkins of Kings Cross, SA; AC-1 Brentnell of Qld; AC-1 Turner of NSW (with arm on table); 21207 AC-1 Donald Brace Batger of Gloucester, NSW; 74585 AC-1 Lawrence Alfred Harris of Sydney, NSW; 16783 AC-1 John Patrick McArdell of Perth, WA. Seated at the head of the table are: 46500 Corporal Alan Dawson Golding of Perth, WA (left), and 404317 Leading Aircraftman (later Squadron Leader) Norman Leslie Bourke of Brisbane, Qld (lost on operations over Burma on 16 October 1944).