Crew of 'Whoa Bessie' a Lancaster Bomber of No 463 Squadron RAAF of Bomber Command, return from a ...

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Accession Number UK1213
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Place made United Kingdom: England, Lincolnshire, Waddington
Date made c 18 April 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Crew of 'Whoa Bessie' a Lancaster Bomber of No 463 Squadron RAAF of Bomber Command, return from a raid over Germany. Members of this crew, comprising six Australians and an Englishman, also took part in the air attacks on and filming of the German battleship Tirpitz. Left to right: 410061 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Edwin John Holden of Melbourne, Vic; 20610 Flying Officer (FO) Robert William Board of Rose Bay, NSW; 402594 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Eric Heinrich Giersch of Henty, NSW; Sergeant W Sinclair, RAF, of Dundee, Scotland; 403418 FO John William Muddle (obscured, standing in doorway of aircraft); 420437 Flt Lt Bruce Alexander Buckham DFC of Sydney, NSW, Captain; 420973 Flt Sgt Lionel James Manning of Nelsons Bay, NSW.