Group portrait of No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery School in Macdonald, Manitoba, Canada. Identified ...

Accession Number P12449.098.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Place made Canada: Manitoba
Date made 1941
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. 3 Bombing and Gunnery School in Macdonald, Manitoba, Canada. Identified back row, left to right: 403662 Richard (Dick) Valentine Elliott (later Sergeant, No. 460 Squadron, died of illness in the United Kingdom on 25 June 1942); 403865 John (Jack) Marcus Fischer (later Pilot Officer, No. 458 Squadron, killed during a Flying Battle off Sardinia on 5 August 1943); 403650 Richard ('Pop') Denison Beeston (later Flight Sergeant, No. 150 Squadron, killed during a Flying Battle over the Atlantic Ocean on 26 July 1942); Tony White; 403852 Gordon Keith Beard; 'Duke' Murdoch (Canada). Front row: Reg Davenport; Peter Fletcher; Colin Campbell; Frank Souden; George Barnes; Ross Healy.