Accession Number | AWM2019.1052.2 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | August 1941 - January 1942 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Collection relating to the service of 401265 Pilot Officer Fergus Alister Allan
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.