Informal group portrait of 425902 Flying Officer (FO) Peter Kenneth Shanahan from Brisbane, ...

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Accession Number UK2230
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Place made United Kingdom: England, Lincolnshire
Date made 5 December 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Informal group portrait of 425902 Flying Officer (FO) Peter Kenneth Shanahan from Brisbane, Queensland, (right of the Interrogation Officer FO Colin Simpson, RAF at end of table) and his crew, at No. 463 Squadron RAAF, RAF Station Waddington being interrogated on returning from their first operational sortie on Heilbohn on the night of 4 December 1944. Reading anti-clockwise round the table, the crew were FO Shanahan; 435003 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Brian Terence Stephens from Brisbane (later Warrant Officer (WO)); 435181 Flt Sgt Robert Stirling Schlencker from Brisbane (later WO); Sergeant H C Compton, RAF; 432628 Flt Sgt Leslie Albert Smith from Newcastle, NSW (later FO); 434389 Flt Sgt John Herbert Schluter from Brisbane (later WO); and 429098 Flt Sgt Alen Rees Price from Sydney, NSW (later FO).