RAAF officers sightseeing in India

Accession Number F02114
Collection type Film
Measurement 8 min
Object type Actuality footage
Physical description 35mm/b&w/silent
Maker RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Place made Ceylon, India: New Delhi
Date made July 1945
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

RAAF officers en route to Australia, sightseeing in Delhi, then at Australian transit camp, Bhopal, again sightseeing and picnicing in Bhopal. From scene 29 there is a sequence showing Flying Officer Hughes in flight in Liberator aircraft en route to Ceylon. It shows the Liberator crew during the flight, with a stop-over at Ratmalana, Ceylon, then further sightseeing in Madras, India. Identified personnel are: Squadron Leader Alfred Victor Charles Taylor of West Maitland, NSW, F/O A. Webster of Albury, NSW, and F/O A Mclean of Brisbane, Qld, Mrs Goode, 402339 F/Lt. Errol James Nevin Barr of Sydney, NSW, 415903 F/Lt Ross Hutchinson, East Fremantle, WA, P/O N.C. Barnes of Toowoomba, Qld, 400550 S/Ldr Norman Bain of Blackburn, Vic, 406322 F/Lt. Reginald Noel Bell of Subiaco, WA, F/Lt. Victor York Richardson, P/O A.J. Reading (boxing), 415592 F/Lt. Gordon Stewart Woollands Richardson of Perth, WA, 424934 F/O Donald Archie Plumb of Cessnock, NSW, 420131 F/O Bernard Jack Brown of Inverell, NSW, 413427 F/Lt. Charles Walter Reynolds of Sydney, NSW, 410036 F/Lt Gordon Wallace Campbell of Rockbank, Vic, 425015 F/O. William Edward Hughes of Cairns, Qld, 421185 F/O Alan Derwent Dixon of Turramurra, NZ, F/O Skeet of Gisborne, N.Z., 405937 F/O Jack Dalton Sandilands, Brisbane, Qld, 417126 F/O Alan David Stanley, Adelaide, SA.

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