Informal portrait of 413549 Flight Sergeants (Flt Sgt) Duncan Williams Davidson, RAAF, of Cowra, ...

Accession Number P05744.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Queensland, Bundaberg
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

Informal portrait of 413549 Flight Sergeants (Flt Sgt) Duncan Williams Davidson, RAAF, of Cowra, NSW, (left), and 413534 Francis Herbert Cridland, RAAF. Later promoted to the rank of Flying Officer (FO), Davidson was killed on 28 December 1943 whilst a member of 157 Squadron, RAF. He is buried at Helston Cemetery, Cornwall, England. FO Cridland was later a member of No 31 Squadron and was killed whilst on operaions on 19 October 1943.