Collection of 23650 Sergeant Clifford Vernon James Potter RAAF

Accession Number P10364.021
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Point Cook
Date made 16 November- 24 December 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

Group portrait of No. 1 Advanced Photographers' Course, No. 1 Service Flying Training School (SFTS), Point Cook. The photograph has been signed by members of the course. Identified, probably back row, left to right are: Corporal (Cpl) G Paterson (probably 2501 Cpl Gordon Ray Paterson); Aircraftman H Hamilton; 40064 Leading Aircraftman Edward David Le Couteur De La Perrelle; 32590 Cpl John Frederick (Jack) Richards; and Cpl C W Burgess (either 14750 Colin Ward Burgess (died of illness in Sydney NSW on 16 January, 1946) or 64231 Cecil Walter Burgess) and 23650 Cpl Clifford Vernon James Potter. Front row: 27463 Cpl John Leslie Stanier; Sergeant Stenhall Jones?; O3399 Flying Officer (FO) Norman Henry Clutterbuck (Instructor); and 16478 Cpl Frederick Maynard Halls. FO Clutterbuck served as an Australian Flying Corps photographer in the First World War. See also P10364.022 for an autographed collage of photographs, drawings and cartoons and a list of the names of the participants. This image is from the collection of 23650 Sergeant Clifford Vernon James Potter RAAF, who served as a photographer with 8 Service Flying Training School, Bundaberg, Queensland.