Studio portrait of 404622 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Henry William Joseph Smith, air gunner, 50 ...

Studio portrait of 404622 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Henry William Joseph Smith, air gunner, 50 Squadron, RAF, of Murwillumbah, NSW. A salesman prior to enlisting in October 1940, he trained in Canada and England under the Empire Air Training Scheme. He was subsequently promoted to Pilot Officer, and, on 6 November 1942, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal (DFM). PO Smith and five other crew members of Lancaster bomber W4382 left RAF Base Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, on a mission to Soltau, Germany on 17 December 1942. W4382 was lost en route; no trace of it, or its crew, was found. PO Henry W J Smith (DFM) was 25 years of age.