Photo of 419328 Flying Officer Patrick Leo McCartin with graduating class group no. 15 dated July 21, 1943

Group portrait of RAAF personnel undertaking Course 78 at No 15 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) at Claresholm, Alberta, Canada from 6 April to 21 July 1943. Identified from left to right, back row: Jack Wilson; 35711 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Frederick Carl Seibert; 429613 Flying Officer (FO) Kevin Jordan McNeill; 429347 FO William Patrick Quan (later killed on flying operations over North West Europe with No 51 Squadron (RAF) on19 August 1944); Les Wittner; 424356 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) John Arthur Benson; Don McKay; 419297 FO Brian James Crocker; ‘Happy’ Jack Boland; 419478 FO Russell Henry Oldmeadow; 421804 Flt Sgt Hector John Gudgeon; Mankey; 419328 FO Patrick Leo McCartin (later killed on flying operations over Germany with No 75 (NZ) Squadron (UK) on 20 November 1944); 410898 Flt Lt Wallace John Keane.
Second row: 419474 Flt Lt Wilfred Anthony Murrell; Hall; Low; Prouting; Mally; 429382 FO Leslie William O’Brien (later awarded DFC); 429416 Pilot Officer Leonard William Millard; 419300 Warrant Officer Raymond Dunn; 426502 FO Mervyn Hamilton Patterson (later awarded DFC); 267490 PO Edward Campbell (Desert Head) Humphries; Jeff Leroy; 424463 Flt Lt Christopher Dalwood Ritchie; Miller; Pat Ireland; Mac Munro;
Front row: 418687 Ian Gregory Mason; White; Walton; 424483 Sergeant (Sgt) Thomas Bevan ‘Ben’ Wallace; 426113 Sgt William John ‘Les’ Kogler; “Ace” Middleton; FO Nolte (Leo’s instructor); Alexander; Jeff Davis; Hutchinson; Marquette; 419161 FO Clifford Neville Cope; 428289 PO Albert Andrew Anderson; 417993 FO Darcy Coleman.