Course photographs for No. 4 Service Flying Training School (4 SFTS)

Place Oceania: Australia, South Australia, Victor Harbor
Accession Number P01405.016
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Frank Boase Studio
Place made Australia: South Australia, Victor Harbor
Date made c November 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of No. 4 Initial Training School, RAAF, Course No. 21, "C" Squadron, Flight 13. Back row from left to right: 416894 Aircraftman 2 (AC2) Lawrence Maxwell Scott (later Warrant Officer (WO)); 416886 AC2 Jeffrey Felgate Parker (later Pilot Officer (PO) and died in an accident in the UK on 6 November 1943); 416879 AC2 Leith Chandler Mudge (later PO and died on flying operations over New Guinea on 21 May 1944); 409876 AC2 Alan Maxwell Shorter (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)); 416885 AC2 Francis Edward O'riley (later PO); 415383 Laurence Keith Nicholl (later Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) and died on flying operations over the Aegean Sea on 30 December 1943); 416880 AC2 Roy Ernest Mugg (later Flying Officer (FO)); 416881 AC2 Harold Nancarrow (later PO); 27509 Sydney Thomas Frederick Monck (later Flt Sgt); 416893 AC2 John Roberts (later FO who died on flying operations over Germany on 15 March 1944 and awarded a DFC); 416906 AC2 Robert Ivor Scott (later Leading Aircraftman (LAC)); and 409851 AC2 Jack Richards (later Flt Sgt and died on flying operations over Algeria on 27 November 1943).
Second row from left to right: 409850 AC2 Franklin Thomas Norton (later WO); 416884 AC2 Michael Ambrose O'Leary (later WO); 415382 AC2 Walter Hugh Middleton (later FO); 416891 AC2 Francis Bryan Power (later FO); 415384 AC2 William Maitland Francis Orr (later Flt Lt); 409852 AC2 James William Robins; 409875 AC2 Roy Adolphe Seelenmeyer (later WO); 416890 Clive Alan Phillips (later Flt Lt); 409855 AC2 Brian Leo Sheean (later Flt Sgt and died on flying operations over France on 11 April 1944); 416895 AC2 John Charles Shipard (later Flt Sgt and died on flying operations over the Mediterranean Sea on 23 January 1944); and 416889 AC2 Colin Gregory Phelps (later Flt Lt).
Front row from left to right: 416878 AC2 John James Monaghan (later WO); 416905 AC2 Thomas Alwyn Roberts (later WO); 409853 AC2 Thomas Weir Rowell (later Flt Lt); 416882 AC2 Graham Ross Newstead (later O42386 FO); 416887 AC2 Frank Arthur Penaluna (later PO and died on flying operations over Papua New Guinea on 28 March 1944); 415386 AC2 James Francis Rogers (later WO); 416883 AC2 Frederick John Oakley (later Flt Sgt and died in an accident in Gibraltar on 30 November 1943, H E Quin; and 416892 Edward William Richards (later FO).