Course photograph for No 4 Initial Training School

Place Oceania: Australia, South Australia, Victor Harbor
Accession Number P01405.029
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Frank Boase Studio
Place made Australia: South Australia, Victor Harbor
Date made c 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, Course No 25, A Squadron, Flight 18. Identified in the back row from left to right: 417288 Aircraftman 2 (AC2) Thomas Morey Yates (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)); 417286 AC2 Dirk Everard Tolley (later Flying Officer (FO) and died on flying operations over Germany on 27 April 1944); 410850 AC2 Ronald Keith Pitchford (later Sergeant (Sgt) and died in an accident at Springsure, Queensland on 16 November 1943); 417118 AC2 Graham Sydney Read (later Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) and died on flying operations over North West Europe on 28 September 1943); 410851 AC2 George Thomas Riddock (later Flt Lt); 410855 AC2 Bruce White (later Flt Lt); 410843 AC2 Mervyn Francis Jones (later Flt Sgt and died on flying operations over Italy on 25 February 1944); 413505 AC2 Frederick John Hilson Thompson (later Leading Aircraftman (LAC)); and 417282 AC2 Brian Pike (later Warrant Officer (WO)).
Second row from left to right: 410852 AC2 Neil Colin Ross (later Flt Sgt and died in an accident in the United Kingdom on 18 December 1943); 410848 AC2 Leslie Keith Ord (later LAC); 410858 AC2 Maurice McHugh (later Pilot Officer (PO) and died on flying operations over the Netherlands on 20 September 1944); 417280 AC2 George Sim Jenkins (later Flt Lt); 417284 AC2 Percival Thomas Sanders (later Flt Lt); 410846 AC2 Joseph William Muntz (later Flt Sgt and died on flying operations over Germany on 23 November 1943); 417287 AC2 Robert John Wilson (later Sgt and died in an accident at Geraldton, Western Australia on 1 November 1943); and 410849 AC2 Reginald John Palethorpe (later LAC).
Front row from left to right: 410844 AC2 Albert Arthur Miller (later LAC); 410847 AC2 Keith Royal McKay (later WO A310591); 417281 AC2 Cyril James Phillis (later FO); 410839 AC2 Noel Goodridge (later PO and died on flying operations over France on 15 June 1944); 27417 Sgt Donald Oliver McDonald (later WO); 410840 AC2 William John Grant (later LAC); 410845 AC2 Bernard Moxham (later Flt Sgt and died on flying operations over North West Europe on 27 April 1944); 410853 AC2 Eric Owen Sampson (later WO); and 417283 AC2 Edwin Latta Robinson (later WO).