Three RAAF pilots serving with No. 16 Squadron RAF. Left to right: 413949 Flying Officer Clarence ...

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Accession Number UK2677
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Isaac, Cyril Hampden
Date made 21 March 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Three RAAF pilots serving with No. 16 Squadron RAF. Left to right: 413949 Flying Officer Clarence Elliott Bone of NSW; 404616 Flight Lieutenant Colin Leigh-Murray of Devonport, Tas and Sydney, NSW; 414368 Pilot Officer (later Flying Officer [FO]) John Wilson Thorpe of Brisbane ,Qld; with FO J.H.Fowler, RAAF Public Relations Officer on the Continent. FO Thorpe died on 13 June 1945 in the Netherlands as a result of a motor cycle accident.