Group portrait of 1 Initial Training School (ITS), 3 Flight, 1 Squadron of No. 23 Course. ...

Accession Number P04931.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Adamson, Edwin G
Place made Australia: Victoria, Mornington Peninsula, Westernport, Somers
Date made 6th 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 1 Initial Training School (ITS), 3 Flight, 1 Squadron of No. 23 Course. Identified from left to right, back row: 410290 John Griffin Alston; 408881 Arthur Bruce Simpson (later of 467 Squadron RAAF, who received the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) on 5 November 1943); 420835 Douglas Venning Harvey (later of 166 Squadron RAF who was killed in action over North West Europe on 31 March 1944); 420817 Roy Albert Kingston (later of 166 Squadron RAF, who was killed in action over Germany on 20 February 1944); 410201 David Owen Donaldson; 420824 Roy Francis Crossley Badman (later of 25 Squadron, who was killed in an accident on 25 April 1944 in Western Australia); 410145 Douglas Alfred Carter (later of 7 Squadron RAF, who was killed in action on 15 March 1944 over Germany); 410182 Alfred Kenneth Trevena (later of 9 Squadron RAF, who was killed in action on 14 January 1944 over Germany); 410140 John Bellock (later of 40 Squadron RAF, who received the Distinguished Flying Cross on 29 August 1944). Third row: 420835 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Douglas Venning Harvey (lost on operations with 166 Squadron RAF over North West Europe on 31 March, 1944); Unidentified; 410186 Peter Waters (later of 80 Squadron RAF, who was taken prisoner of war by the Japanese and executed on 23 March 1945); 410179 Charles John Thoday; 420825 Gordon Robertson Balcombe (later of 100 Squadron RAF, who was killed in action on 15 February 1944 over Germany); O35928 (410189) Alan Vern Withers (later of 106 Squadron RAF, who received the DFC on 30 June 1944); 410167 Charles Walton Milburn. Second row: Unidentified; J W Brassiere; O39574 (410159) James Humphrey (later of 582 Squadron RAF, who received the DFC on 23 March 1945); 410163 Ronald Walter Robert Lardner; 420833 David Fisher; 420827 Gordon Francis Blanch (later of 5 Squadron, who was killed in an accident on 12 June 1943 at Mareeba, Queensland); 410291 Robin Frederick Anderson (later of 106 Squadron RAF, who received the DFC on 9 May 1944); 420819 Sidney George Lee (later of 238 Squadron RAF, who was killed in action on 21 September 1944 over Italy); 410199 Kenneth George Bell. Front row: 420838 Ronald Cecil Martin (later of 460 Squadron RAF, who was killed in action on 25 February 1944 over Germany); 420843 Michael James McCann; 410141 Frank Noel Birch; 410296 Walter Voss Bates (later of 20 Squadron RAAF, who was killed in action on 7 March 1945 over the Formosa Area); 420844 Stanley Williamson (later of 37 Squadron RAF, who received the DFC on 14 November 1944); 410288 Colin Thomas Akers (later 101 Squadron, awarded DFC on 19 September 1944); 420818 Allan Lord (later of 46 Squadron RAF, who was killed in action on 7 June 1944); 410173 Kenneth George Rigg.