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| Accession Number | ART22312 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | framed: 79 x 68 cm; unframed: 60.9 x 50.7 cm |
| Object type | Painting |
| Physical description | oil on canvas |
| Maker |
Colahan, Colin |
| Place made | United Kingdom: England, Devon, Plymouth, Mount Batten |
| Date made | 1942 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Ground staff (Flight Sergeant Oswald 'Ossie' Ferguson)
Description
Portrait of Flight Sergeant Oswald 'Ossie' Ferguson, ground staff, No 10 Squadron, RAAF. The young man from Goulburn smiles confidently and self-assuredly at the viewer, his tinsnips nonchalantly held in his hand as he leans against a cabinet. A fitter, he worked on Sunderland aircraft in the workshops at Mount Battern, Plymouth. Ferguson was on leave in London when he was killed by a flying bomb on 30 June 1944, aged 33, and is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery, Woking UK.