Outdoor group portrait of graduated pilots. Identified left to right: Back row: 406559 Edward ...

Accession Number P10335.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Geraldton
Date made c 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

Outdoor group portrait of graduated pilots. Identified left to right:

Back row: 406559 Edward Manton Christensen; 406727 William Norman Muir; 406641 John Matthew Desmond, killed on 28 May 1943 on operations over Germany; 406637 Francis Valentine Browne, killed on 2 Nov 1942 on operations over Egypt; 407855 Edward Keith Hender, accidentally killed on 31 July 1944 in India; Baily; 407969 William Robert Vivian Lewis; 406644 (later O51787) Roy George Gannaway; 407965 John Charles Dangerfield, killed on 12 Jan 1943 on operations over North West Europe.

Second row: 406690 George Henry Cooper; 406654 Oliver Lawrence Ismay Howard, killed on 23 Mar 1944 on operations over the Atlantic Ocean; 406660 John Francis McMullen, killed on 22 Jun 1944 on operations over France; 407962 Lindsay William Carroll; 406613 Billy Kendall Collins; 406612 Donovan Lynne Clarke; Lacing (believed to be 406693 Edward Vivian Laing, lost on operations 21 January 1943); 406646 Bruce Furze Gaston, (later DFC); 406635 Jack Bostleman.

Front row: 406650 Henry Bruce Hancock; Webb; 407970 Albert Scott Little, (later AFC); 406610 Norman Angove Chester; 2206, 387 (later O35569) Flight Lieutenant Lindsay Roscrow Trewren; 406649 Robert Edmund Guthrie, killed on 1 Aug 1942 on operations over Germany; 406694 Patrick Laurence Looney, killed on 16 September 1942 on operations over North West Europe; 406634 Andrew Basil Reginald Airy, killed on 26 Jun 1943 on operations over North West Europe; 406686 Nigel Beaton.