Course photographs for No 4 Initial Training School

Place Oceania: Australia, South Australia, Victor Harbor
Accession Number P01405.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Frank Boase Studio
Place made Australia: South Australia, Victor Harbor
Date made 22 April 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor group portrait of No 4 Initial Training School, RAAF, Special Guard for the Governor-General Lord Gowrie, VC, PC, GCMG, CB, DSO. The Guard Commander is 282775 Flying Officer (FO) John Claimont Daniell (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)). Identified in the back row, from left to right: Leading Aircraftman (LAC) J Dobson (possibly 266778 LAC Joseph Dobson (later Flt Lt); 417087 LAC Lloyd Christie Leak (later Warrant Officer (WO)); 416909 LAC Leith John Warner (later FO and awarded a DFC); 410225 LAC Walter Geoffrey Faithfull (later Flt Lt); 410237 LAC Byron Leslie Jackson (later FO); 417116 LAC Colin Sidney Pullman (later Flt Lt); and O5830 LAC Geoffrey Ronald Cullen.
Front row from left to right: 285632 Sergeant (Sgt) Harold Arthur Tremethick (later Flt Lt); 410231 LAC Walter Henry Heinz (later Flt Lt); 417063 LAC Julius Edward Elkan (later Flt Lt); 27147 LAC Ronald Evans Mansfield (later Flt Lt); 415479 LAC Ronald George Marriott (later Flt Lt); 410008 LAC Victor Henry Neal (later FO); 415572 LAC William Alick Barr (later Flt Lt); 417178 LAC (later Flying Officer) Alan William Morphett Gunson (lost on operations over the Atlantic Ocean on September 21, 1943); and 27285 Corporal Frank Vardon (later WO).