Informal portrait of 438726 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Dennis Geoffrey Featherstone, No. 24 ...

Accession Number P11782.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 1944-1945
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 438726 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Dennis Geoffrey Featherstone, No. 24 Squadron, RAAF. This was the last photograph taken of him whilst home on leave. Flt Sgt Featherstone was killed in air operations over Borneo on 2 July 1945.

This photograph was enclosed in a collection of letters written to the family of 430751 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Arthur James Hogg, by the parents of the other members of the flight crew killed when their aircraft, Liberator A72-64, was hit by enemy fire and crashed near Balikpapan, Borneo, on 2 July 1945. The photograph was enclosed with a letter from Mr Featherstone to Mr Hogg, dated 3 June 1946.