Group portrait of an RAAF cricket team, with five additional RAAF officers, who played a match ...

Group portrait of an RAAF cricket team, with five additional RAAF officers, who played a match against a team from the Morris Leyland motor company at Old Trafford cricket ground on 3 June 1944, to mark the reopening of the ground for the first time since the war began. Back row, left to right: Pilot Officer (PO) W Baker, of Collingwood, Vic; 419158 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Gordon Stanley Carlton, of Victoria; Sergeant (Sgt) M Stocks, of Victoria; an unidentified RAAF officer; Sgt Kerr, of Victoria (twelfth man); two unidentified RAAF officers; Flying Officer (FO) J Thomson, of North Sydney; PO K Marshall, who had been a representative player for Queensland in 1936; 430236 PO Peter Anthony Gahan, of Victoria. Front row, left to right: 423190 FO Terence Leslie O'Halloran, of NSW; 403860 Squadron Leader (SL) Henry George Cooke, of NSW, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) on 7 December 1943 for 'displaying coolness and skill in face of the enemy'; Group Captain Heath; SL D Beyer, of Victoria (captain of the team); 405111 Wing Commander John Richard Ratten, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) on 21 March 1944 for 'skill on a large number of operational sorties'; Sgt P Summicks, of Kent, England; Sgt O'Malley, of Queensland.