Accession Number | P11042.002 |
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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
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Portrait of crew members of Halifax MZ299 which was shot down during operations near Wittmund, ...
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.