Informal group portrait of RAAF recruits in an air raid shelter, Madley, Hereford, UK, waiting ...

Accession Number P09708.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, West Midlands
Date made June 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 in an air raid shelter, Madley, Hereford, UK, waiting for their billy to boil. Left to right: 411503 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Kenneth Tudor Rodwell Lucas, a dairy worker from Nyngan, NSW, killed on operations over the Mediterranean on 10 July 1943; 411788 Flt Sgt Albert Jowers, a bank officer from Parramatta, NSW, also killed on operations over the Mediterranean, on 23 February 1943; 27913 Sergeant (Sgt) Peter Duncan; Unknown (in hat); 411796 Flying Officer (FO) Magnus Bruce Manson (with pipe).

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