Group portrait of RAAF recruits, from the No.1 Wireless School, Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) ...

Place North & Central America: Canada, Quebec, Montreal
Accession Number P09708.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Canada: Quebec, Montreal
Date made c 1941 - 1942
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 RAAF recruits, from the No.1 Wireless School, Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) in Montreal, Canada. Left to right: 411535 Flying Officer (FO) Lindley Lloyd Shiels; 411831 FO Eric Anthony Richardson; 411184 Aircraftman (later FO) Eric Beattie Purcell; 408756 FO William Edward Robinette; and 21690 Leading Aircraftman Jack Stevens. FO Richardson was killed on operations over the Atlantic Ocean on 6 December 1943.