Course photograph for No 4 Initial Training School

Place Oceania: Australia, South Australia, Victor Harbor
Accession Number P01405.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Frank Boase Studio
Place made Australia: South Australia, Victor Harbor
Date made August 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 officers of No 4 Initial Training School, RAAF, outside the entrance to the school building. Identified in the back row from left to right: 254600 Pilot Officer (PO) Rolf Tyrrell Howard (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)); PO J A Brown (probably 266527 John Alexander Brown (later Flying Officer (FO)); 254220 PO Ian Charles Henderson Croll (later Flt Lt); 253514 PO John Guy Healy (later Flt Lt); 500111 Margaret Fife Harbison (later Senior Sister); 285399 PO Robert Malcolm Coward (later Flt Lt); 283835 FO Gordon Gilbert Phillips (later Flt Lt); FO N S James; and 283293 PO Kenneth Austey Furze (later Flt Lt).
Second row from left to right: FO H Brown (probably 283694 FO Hector Merven Brown (later Flt Lt); 255650 PO Alasdair Keith Wilson (later Flt Lt); 285578 PO Ronald Samuel Pitcher (later Flt Lt); 253320 PO Lambert Gordon Hamilton (later Flt Lt); 283183 Flt Lt Kenneth James Robertson; 352106 Staff officer (SO) Gladys Lilian Betts (later Flight Officer); 351206 Air Staff Officer (ASO) Mary Chatterton Nankervis; 350084 ASO Lillias Elizabeth Pringle; Flt Lt H Whittaker; FO F Carswell (possibly 274388 FO John Francis Whately Carswell); 264707 PO Alvin Conrad Kopsch (later Flt Lt); 254218 PO John Gavin Baker (later Flt Lt); and 265663 PO Leslie Aubrey Watson (later Flt Lt).
Front row from left to right: 283829 Flt Lt William James Bentley; Flt Lt Raymond John Parker (later Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) O3318); 280431 Flt Lt Cecil Austin Hewitt; 281995 Flt Lt Robert Henry Barwell (later Sqn Ldr); 250903 Sqn Ldr Donald Archibald Wright (later Wing Commander (Wing Cdr) O33016); 45 Wing Cdr Dermott Anthony Connelly (Commanding Officer); 283766 Sqn Ldr Sydney Rupert Norman Bowen; 251422 Sqn Ldr Robert Stuart Robinson; Flt Lt R S Ronalds; Flt Lt Laurence George Menadue; and 263820 Flt Lt Vincent Patrick Skinner.