Outdoor portrait of RAAF officers in front of an Italian CR32 fighter plane. From left, 260652 ...

Accession Number P09317.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made North Africa: Libya, Cyrenaica, Benghazi
Date made c 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor portrait of RAAF officers in front of an Italian CR32 fighter plane. From left, 260652 (later Squadron Leader 2 Operational Training Unit) Thomas Hamilton Trimble; 386 Alan Charles Rawlinson (later Wing Commander, DFC, 78 Wing Headquarters); 456 Flight Lieutenant Lindsay Eric Shaw Knowles, (later No. 3 Squadron), killed during operations on 22 November 1941, aged 24; 481 Peter St George Bruce Turnbull (later DFC, Squadron Leader, 76 Squadron); 134 Duncan Campbell (later Squadron Leader, No. 3 Squadron) killed during operations on 5 April 1941, aged 26.