Mixed collection relating to Flying Officer Henry Stewart Chatto (421569)

Informal portrait of 421569 Flying Officer (FO) Harry Chatto RAAF, 180 Squadron RAF, of Kogarah, NSW. An audit clerk prior to enlistment, FO Chatto trained in Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme and was attached for duty to 180 Squadron RAF in January 1945. On 21 March 1945, FO Chatto and three other crew members aboard a Mitchell II FW 236 aircraft were on operations intended to destroy the marshalling yards in Bocholt, Germany. Their aircraft was shot down between Werth, Germany, and Bocholt by enemy fire which resulted in the deaths of all but one of the crew, 422472 Flight Sergeant John Milton Farr. FO Chatto was 25 years old at the time of his death.