Portrait of Flying Officer Michael Patrick John Herbert

Accession Number AWM2019.1142.1.3
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Commonwealth of Australia copyright

Description

Portrait of O44310 Flying Officer (FO) Michael Patrick John Herbert, RAAF. FO Herbert and his navigator, O119223 Pilot Officer (PO) Robert Charles Carver, were the crew of of a Canberra bomber aircraft, number A84-231, of No. 2 Squadron RAAF, which was lost on operations over Vietnam on 3 November 1970. Both men were posted as missing in action and were later presumed dead. FO Herbert is buried in Centennial Park Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia.

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