Collection related to the service of 413394 John Maxwell Knight RAAF

Accession Number P11016.016
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Lindfield, Bradfield Park
Date made 28 August 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

Identification portrait of 413370 Aircraftman 2 (AC2) Colin Cortland Godley, of Shaw Avenue, Kingsford, NSW. A company secretary prior to enlisting on 17 August 1941, he completed his initial training at Bradfield Park, NSW and was later attached to the RAF. Flying Officer (FO) Godley, attached to 61 Squadron, RAF, took off from Syreston, England in a Lancaster JA 837 QR- with a crew of 9, for a mission over Hamburg, Germany. He died on 3 August 1943, when the Lancaster was shot down near Luneburg, Germany and crashed near Wohlenbuttel, Germany. He was 30 years of age. FO Godley is buried in the Becklingen War Cemetery, Luneburg, Germany.

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