Collection relating to the service of 401265 Pilot Officer Fergus Alister Allan

Accession Number AWM2019.1052.2
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Date made August 1941 - January 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of 401265 Pilot Officer (PO) Fergus Alister Allan RAAF, of Melbourne, Victoria. PO Allan is wearing his observer's qualification brevet. PO Allan enlisted to the Royal Australian Air Force on 5 January 1941. He trained as an air observer in South Australia before he went on to do operational training at 70 Operational Training Unit RAF, in Nakuru, Kenya. On 23 January 1942, Pilot Officer Allan was killed in a training accident, alongside two other crew members. He is buried at Nakuru North Cemetery, Kenya.

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