Informal portrait of 404251Sergeant (Sgt) John Kirkpatrick Morris, RAAF, (later 102 Squadron ...

Accession Number P07614.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 17 November 1940
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 404251Sergeant (Sgt) John Kirkpatrick Morris, RAAF, (later 102 Squadron RAF), of Brisbane, Qld, at the controls of a Tiger Moth training aircraft. The Tiger Moth is fitted with a canvas hood, used to practice flying blind. Sgt Morris was a clerk before enlisting on 19 July 1940. He was accidentally killed at the age of 21 on 14 April 1942. He was a crew member of a Halifax bomber (serial number FA R9488) which crashed while on air test at Bladersby, near Ripon, England, killing all on board.