Informal group portrait of RAAF recruits on the platform of Bath Railway Station. From left to ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Somerset, Bath
Accession Number P09708.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Somerset, Bath
Date made 15 May 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

Informal group portrait of RAAF recruits on the platform of Bath Railway Station. From left to right: 411503 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Kenneth Tudor Rodwell Lucas; 411133 Flying Officer (FO) Edward Wormley Evans; 27913 Sergeant (Sgt) Peter Duncan; 411184 Sgt (later FO) Eric Beattie Purcell; 401378 Wing Commander (Wing Cdr) Brian John Francis Hayes and 405290 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Bernard William Battis. Flt Sgt Lucas, a dairy worker from Nyngan, NSW, was killed on operations over the Mediterranean on 10 July 1943.