Group portrait of members of the third course of trainee pilots at the NSW State Aviation School ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Richmond
Accession Number P00731.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Kent, Milton
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Richmond, Australia: South Australia, Adelaide
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of members of the third course of trainee pilots at the NSW State Aviation School in front of a Curtiss Jenny (JN) aircraft at Ham Common near Richmond. Left to right, back row: Alan Sydney Edwards, (ex 4th Battalion, AIF); N70059 Augustus 'Bob' Bargwanna, (formerly Mechanical Transport Section, Army Service Corps); Richard Henry Chester, Chief Mechanic, ex Central Flying School (CFS) Point Cook; William John Stutt, Chief Instructor, ex Royal Flying Corps (RFC), NSW Special Air Service (SAS); Henry George Murray, Assistant Instructor, ex 2nd Course, Richmond; 51054 Glenn Dobell, ex 1st Australian Light Horse; Douglas William Cullam, ex 12th Australian Light Horse, Gallipoli and 4 Squadron AFC; Cyril Charles Worboys, RFC. Front row: K Mathieson; James Herbert Crews (alias Herbert James Crews), AFC; Roger Sayer Fleming Nickoll (possibly to RAF/RNAS); Second Lieutenant George Viner Wicks, later AFC, killed in flying accident, Leighterton, England on 13 October 1918; Lewis George Cole (ex Lance Corporal 1st Battalion who returned to Australia in 1915)