Group portrait of members of Course 58 who attended the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) at the ...

Place North & Central America: Canada
Accession Number P00943.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made Canada: Ontario
Date made June 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

Group portrait of members of Course 58 who attended the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) at the No. 6 Service Flying Training School at Dunnville Airport 3.7 km south of Dunnville, Ontario, Canada between June and October 1942
Left to Right:
Back row: Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Marsh; 409172 LAC (later Flying Officer (FO) John Parker Morieson; 409785 LAC (later Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt)) Kenneth Ebenezer Adamson, (killed on operations 29 November 1943); 409649 LAC (later Flt Sgt) Donald Leighton Spencer Barr, (killed on operations 7 July 1943); 413676 LAC (later Flt Sgt) Edwin Alfred Sims, (killed on operations 23 June 1943); 409724 LAC (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)) Harry Gibbard Manley, (awarded Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) 13 April 1945); 413707 LAC (later Pilot Officer (PO)) Ronald Ernest Yarra, (killed on operations 14 April 1944); 413982 LAC (later Flt Sgt) Donald Murray Gibson, (accidently killed 15 May 1943); 409850 LAC (later Warrant Officer (WO) Franklin Thomas Norton; 409770 LAC (later WO) Arthur Lewis Terry, (accidently killed 8 June 1944); 413942 LAC (later FO) Leslie Barnett.
Middle row: 420044 LAC (later Flt Lt) Neil Morton Peters, (awarded DFC 21 January 1944); 413668 LAC (later WO) David Royds; 420055 LAC (later Flt Sgt) Patrick James Rendle, (killed on operations 29 June 1943); 420093 LAC (later FO) Alexander Harold Will, (killed on operations 26 January 1944); 420086 LAC (later Flt Sgt) Robert Reginald Waddell, (killed on operations 27 August 1943); 420095 LAC (later WO) Mark Wood; 414452 LAC (later FO Ernest Schuman; 413639 LAC (later WO) Ronald William Murkin; 413701 LAC (later Flt Lt) William Henry Westphal, (awarded DFC 16 February 1945); LAC Smith; 413715 LAC (later Flt Lt) George Chester Henry; 413935 LAC (later Flt Lt) Laurence John Henderson.
Front row: 409695 LAC (later FO) Charles Douglas Hamilton, (killed on operations 21 September 1944); 409858 LAC (later Flt Lt) William Colin Spurr, (awarded DFC 20 July 1945); 415377 LAC (later Flt Sgt) Leonard Ernest Cavanagh, (killed on operations 23 June 1943); LAC Taylor; 409755 LAC (later FO) Henry Valentine Charles Sheppard, (accidently killed 31 May 1943); 420201 LAC (later Flt Lt) Ronald Rupert Cortis Hyne, (awarded DFC 8 June 1945 and Croix de Guerre); 420182 LAC (later Flt) Lt John Norman Beresford Garden; 413683 LAC (later PO) Frank Phillip Stanger, (killed on operations 9 February 1944); 409732 LAC (later Flt Sgt) George Vallance McMurray, (killed on operations 4 September 1943); 409773 LAC (later PO) William Leslie Topp, (killed on operations 8 September 1943); 413 953 LAC (later Flt Lt) Leslie Gordon Bridges.