Group portrait of cadet pilots of D Flight, 1 Flying Training School, Point Cook, most of whom ...

Accession Number P05604.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Point Cook
Date made December 1939
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 cadet pilots of D Flight, 1 Flying Training School, Point Cook, most of whom enlisted on 6 November 1939. Identified, left to right, back row: 260515 Paul Pryde Paterson (later Flight Lieutenant with 24 Squadron, died on 19 January 1942); 524 Simon John Fraser (later Squadron Leader with 2 Squadron, died on 11 October 1942); D A Campbell; James Augustine Hooper (later Flight Lieutenant); 280517 Ronald Arthur Fletcher (later Squadron Leader); Alfred Vindin Hilder (later Pilot Officer, 1 Armament Training School Point Cook, killed in an accident on 10 May 1940); 260512 Alan Spencer Haye (later Squadron Leader); 270542 John Hickey (later Squadron Leader). Middle row: 270527 Arthur Bashford (later Flight Lieutenant); 260523 John William Finlayson (later Squadron Leader); 270520 Leslie Douglas Jackson (later Squadron Leader, DFC and Bar); 260518 Oscar George Diethelm (later Squadron Leader, discharged 15 December 1944); 250539 Raymond Tom Cupper (later Squadron Leader). Front row: 513 Thomas Gracie Joyce (later Flying Officer, 10 Squadron, died on 29 April 1941); 290536 Stewart George Bothroyd (later Flight Lieutenant); 290533 Leonard Gordon Harber (later Squadron Leader); H V Kenna; 540 Robert Wylie Burns Cuming (later Flight Lieutenant with 2 Squadron, died on 20 January 1942); 270675 James Bell (later Squadron Leader, discharged 3 June 1944); 280537 Cyril Goode (later Flight Lieutenant, discharged 22 April 1944); 280511 Kenneth Gordon Kleinig (later Squadron Leader).