Group portrait of members of the Officers mess of No. 31 Squadron, RAAF. The Squadron moved to ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Coomalie
Accession Number P01164.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made Australia: Northern Territory, Coomalie Creek
Date made 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 members of the Officers mess of No. 31 Squadron, RAAF. The Squadron moved to Coomalie Creek Air Base, N.T. on 12 November 1942.
Back row (Left to right): 266397 Flying Officer (FO) Francis John Magee, DFC; 400399 FO Kevin McDavitt; FO F. Morton; O210404 (412645) Pilot Officer (PO) Kenneth John McLennon; O3159 FO Dudley Lloyd Drysdale; 400207 FO Kenneth Neal McDonald, DFC; 255460 FO Eric Hallitt Firth.
Second row: 583 FO Joseph Irwin Stanley; O3110 (800) FO Cyril Arthur Greenwood; 252852 FO Frank Osborne Wolff; 262722 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Adrian George McGlynn (Medical Officer); 426951 PO William Alex Mckinnon; 260777 Flt Lt Kenneth William Fraser Blundell (killed in an accident in Laverton, Melbourne Vic on 17 August, 1945); FO Grant.
Third row: NX12516 (N222915) Captain William John Catton; 33246 PO Ian Menzies Cork; 266664 FO Lloyd William Yeomans; O3489 FO John Neville Marr, DFC; 255417 FO Allan McCrae Cobham; FO Vincent; 296 396 PO Eric Charles Richards; O3246 PO Reginald Ernest Cormie.
Front row: 260740 Flt Lt John Alfred Madden; Flt Lt Frost; 168 Squadron Leader Gordon Walter Savage, DFC; O367 (220) Wing Commander Charles Frederick Read, DFC; 291499 Flt Lt Kenneth Delisle Cohen; Flt Lt Collings; O21922 FO John Eric Stephen Dennett.