Informal portrait of the RAAF crew of Lancaster aircraft ND346, 467 Squadron RAF. Identified in ...

Accession Number P11343.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Lincolnshire
Date made c 1943-1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of the RAAF crew of Lancaster aircraft ND346, 467 Squadron RAF. Identified in the photograph, back row, left to right; 426343 Flt Sgt Albert Edward Heap; 425881 Flt Sgt John Alexander Woodrow McKinnon; possibly 434619 Flt Sgt Edgar Glynn Challis (lost on operations over France on 2 August 1944) and 410070 WO Johnathan Sylvester Le Maire. Front row, left to right; 426601 Flt Sgt Russell Howard; 420648 Flight Officer Arthur Richard Dyer (with mascot devil on his shoulder) and possibly Sgt A.G Shalayer (RAF). The crew were later killed on operations on 2 August 1944 when their aircraft collided mid-air with Lancaster ME853 and crashed at Boran-Sur-Oise, France.