Studio portrait of 437237 Flying Officer (FO) John Michael Ward, 460 Squadron RAAF. FO Ward from ...

Accession Number P07793.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 437237 Flying Officer (FO) John Michael Ward, 460 Squadron RAAF. FO Ward from Adelaide, SA, enlisted on 5 December 1942 and was shot down and killed near Oostelbeers, Holland, on 24 December 1944. He was the bomb aimer aboard 460 Squadron Lancaster bomber serial number PB-255 ( call sign AR-E), the entire crew of which were killed and buried at the Roman Catholic Churchyard Cemetery at Oostelbeers.