Studio portrait of 20762 Flying Officer (FO) Donald Erskine Knight, pilot of 3 Squadron RAAF. FO ...

Accession Number P09834.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 20762 Flying Officer (FO) Donald Erskine Knight, pilot of 3 Squadron RAAF. FO Knight, a clerk from Launceston, Tas, prior to enlisting on 4 March 1940, was killed on operations over Libya on 13 December 1941. He was 23 years of age. His older brother, 408032 FO Lyn Geoffrey Reginald Knight, a flying instructor at Deniliquin, NSW, was later killed in a flying accident on 2 February 1943, see (P09834.002).