Group portrait of members of an aircrew training course group. Identified back row: 400871 Austin ...

Accession Number P09691.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Mornington Peninsula, Westernport, Somers
Date made 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

Group portrait of members of an aircrew training course group. Identified back row: 400871 Austin James Collins (later Flt Sgt), 22 Squadron RAAF, lost on operations 1 June 1943 (far left). Also in the back row, postions not confirmed but probably left to right following Collins, are: 406323 Herbert Frederick 'Fred' Backhouse (later Flt Sgt), 162 Squadron RAF, lost on operations 29 January 1943; 407524 Robert John 'Bob' Burns (later Flt Sgt), 221 Squadron RAF, lost on operations 23 January 1943; 402693 Frank Coleman (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)), 3 Operational Training Unit; Doug Bell; and 406283 Thomas Leon Ford Bailey (later Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt)), 104 Squadron RAF, lost on operations 30 September 1942. Front row, positions not confirmed but probably left to right: 406342 Albert Norris (Norris) Bingley (later Warrant Officer), Air Gunnery School West Sale; 406324 Vernon Stewart Barnes (later Warrant Officer), 38 Squadron RAF, lost on operations 27 October 1943; 406548 Gerald Ware (Gerry) Copeland (lost on operations with 78 Squadron RAF 4 May 1942); 407601 Rex Theodore Burt (later Sergeant), 21 Operational Training Unit, lost on operations 2 June 1942; and 408102 Lionel Brownley (later Flt Lt), 21 Squadron RAAF.