Outdoor group portrait of members of No. 460 Squadron RAAF, based at an RAF Station which has ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England
Accession Number SUK10299
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made United Kingdom: England, Cambridgeshire, Molesworth
Date made November 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor group portrait of members of No. 460 Squadron RAAF, based at an RAF Station which has been newly-formed and equipped with Wellington bomber aircraft. Identified from left to right: 404539 Sergeant (Sgt) (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)) William John Chaplain from Brisbane Queensland; 402600 Sgt Trevor Hopetoun McIlveen from Sydney, NSW (killed on flying operations over Germany on 29 April 1942); 400337 Sgt (later Pilot Officer) Stuart Wood from Victoria in front (accidentally killed in the UK on 15 February 1943); next two at back are unidentified; 404256 Sgt (later Flt Lt) Francis Joseph Nugent from Queensland, in front (later awarded DFC); 407828 Sgt (later Flying Officer) Arrol Ainslie Penglase from South Australia; 407531 Sgt (later Flt Lt) Allan Francis McKinnon from South Australia (later awarded DFC) (killed on flying operations over Germany on 5 March 1944); 408122 Sgt John Percival Cosgrove from South Australia (killed on flying operations over Germany on 29 April 1942); 404684 Sgt (later Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt)) Alexander Clive Johnston from Queensland (killed on flying operations over Germany on 13 May 1943); 400524 Sgt (later Flt Sgt) Hugh Rowell Brodie from Melbourne, Victoria (killed on flying operations over Germany on 3 June 1942); 400335 Sgt John Robert Shearer from Victoria, in front (killed on flying operations over Germany on 7 May 1942); and 404705 Sgt Reginald Henry Murphy from Queensland (killed on flying operations over Germany on 7 May 1942).