Photograph collection relating to 5561 Second Lieutenant Roy Lytton Cummings, No. 5 Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps

27 photographs relating to the service of 5561 Second Lieutenant Roy Lytton Cummings. The images are primarily focused on his experiences with the 3rd Field Ambulance during his short period of service in the last months of the Gallipoli campaign. Topics include the Australian Clearing Hospital, Turkish prisoners, Cathedral Point, Anzac Cove and 3 Field Ambulance Clearing Station. Many of the images include hand written captions on the back.

2lt Cummings originally enlisted with the 3rd Field Ambulance. In January 1916, he successfully applied to be remustered as a Driver and saw service in France with No 4 Ammunition Sub Park at Rouen until July 1917, when he applied for a transfer to the Flying Corps and was accepted on 29 September 1917. Assigned to No. 5 Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (based at Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire), in early 1918, Cummings quickly displayed an impressive flair for flying. Second Lieutenant Cummings passed his instructor's course in May 1918, and actively trained student pilots at Minchinhampton until he was killed several months later in a flying accident.

These images are part of a larger collection relating to the service of the Cumming brothers: 5561 Second Lieutenant Roy Lytton Cummings, No. 5 Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps; 1026 Second Lieutenant Eric Douglas Cummings DFC, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps; and the First and Second World war service of 131/1457/N272662 Second Lieutenant Mervyn Harold 'Laddie' (or 'Lad') Cummings MM, No. 5 Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps.