Group portrait of No 9 Staff Navigator’s Course, General Reconnaissance School, RAAF Station ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Bairnsdale
Accession Number P01334.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made Australia: Victoria, Bairnsdale
Date made November 1944
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 9 Staff Navigator’s Course, General Reconnaissance School, RAAF Station Bairnsdale, Victoria. Identified from left to right in the back row: 420739 Flying Officer (FO) William Funnell (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)); Pilot Officer (PO) William White; 401563 Flt Lt Griffith Vincent Hughes; 416137 FO Stanley Thomas Aistrope; 426946 FO Thomas Isbister; and 406998 Flt Lt David Robert Hebbard (later awarded Air Force Cross (AFC)).
Front row: 415669 FO Carl Thomson Lutz; 424316 FO Arthur Dennis Wood (later Flt Lt); 411194 Flt Lt Eric Walton Salkeld (later awarded Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)); 406499 FO Thomas Oliver Birch (later Flt Lt); 407875 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Jack Place (later Warrant Officer (WO)); and WO George Fitzgerald (possibly O598 Harold George Fitzgerald, later Squadron Leader).