Portrait of crew members of Halifax MZ299 which was shot down during operations near Wittmund, ...

Accession Number P11042.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Date made 1942-1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of crew members of Halifax MZ299 which was shot down during operations near Wittmund, Germany on 15 October 1944. Identified front row: 408462 Pilot Officer (PO) Tasman Leonard Williams, RAAF (wireless operator/air gunner) (left); 426709 PO Ernest Thompson, RAAF (bomb aimer) (right). Believed to be pictured, position unknown 426647 Flying Officer Albert Henry Munroe, RAAF (pilot); possibly Sergeant (Sgt) T W N Kemp RAF, (mid upper gunner); Flt Sgt George William Dawson, RAF (rear gunner); PO William Stones, RAF, (flight engineer); Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Harvey Roy Harris, RAF (navigator). All crew members were killed with the exception of Sgt Kemp who was taken prisoner of war. Those killed are buried in the Sage War Cemetery, Oldenburg, Germany.