Group portrait of the Newman family and a number of airmen gathered around a Christmas tree. The ...

Accession Number P04310.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Hampshire
Date made 25 December 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 the Newman family and a number of airmen gathered around a Christmas tree. The Newman family opened their home and provided hospitality to hundreds of airmen from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and Poland between August 1941 and 1945. This was part of a voluntary organisation known as the Lady Ryder Hospitality Scheme, set up to ensure that hospitality was provided for airmen arriving in Britain after graduating from the Empire Air Training Scheme. Identified left to right, standing are: 26337 Sergeant (Sgt) Edgar John Douglas Fox, of Woodville, SA; unidentified; unidentified; 402324 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Lloyd Allman Denning, of Sydney, NSW; Mrs Ethel Newman; Mr Jocelyn Newman. Seated in front are Robert and William Newman. The two unidentified men could be: 400741 Sgt Archibald Edmond Tinkler, of Bendigo, Vic, 406602 Warrant Officer (WO) Clarance Alfred Miners, of Inglewood, WA or 408159 WO Arthur Lionel Smith, of Derby, Tas.
Sgt Tinkler, 460 Squadron, RAAF, enlisted in Melbourne, Vic, on 13 October 1940 and was killed whislt on operations over Germany on 27 July 1942.

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