Studio portrait of 427244 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Ronald Stephen Kerrigan, 31 Squadron RAAF, of ...

Accession Number P08032.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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 427244 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Ronald Stephen Kerrigan, 31 Squadron RAAF, of North Perth, WA. He was a window dresser prior to enlisting in June 1942. Flt Sgt Kerrigan was piloting Beaufighter A19-163 when it crashed during take off from Broome, WA on 18 September 1944. Flt Sgt Kerrigan and the navigator, 433513 Flt Sgt Ronald George Smith, were killed. He was 20 years of age.

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