Group portrait of aircrew trainees taken during initial Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) at an ...

Accession Number P11713.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made May 1941 - December 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 aircrew trainees taken during initial Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) at an unidentified location. The print is autographed in the back. Identified middle row, fourth from left is 411690 (later Pilot Officer) Kenneth George Feeney, No. 467 Squadron, of Kogarah NSW. Also identified, front row, far left, is 405677 (later Flight Sergeant) Maurice Hyde Cutmore of Dulacca, Queensland. PO Feeney and F/Sgt Cutmore were listed as missing after their Lancaster bomber, serial number ND732, radio call-sign P0-Y (Y-Yoke) failed to return from an operational sortie over the bomb marshalling yards at La Chappelle, France, on the night of 20/21st April 1944. It was determined after the war that ND732 was hit by flack over the target and crashed at Le Blanc Mesnil on the south east side of Paris-le-Bourget airport, killing all seven crew members. The men are buried in adjacent graves at Clichy Northern Cemetery, France.