Informal group portrait of members of a RAAF Beaufighter Squadron unloading mail for Australian ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Papuan Islands, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Goodenough Island
Accession Number 016221
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Short, Gordon Herbert
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Papuan Islands, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Goodenough Island
Date made c November 1943
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 group portrait of members of a RAAF Beaufighter Squadron unloading mail for Australian troops. Identified from the left: 260702 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Michael William Burrows of Williamstown, Victoria; 266863 Flying Officer (FO) Raymond Gordon Wheatley of Bridgetown, West Australia (later Flt Lt and awarded George Cross); 210067 Flying Officer Alexander George Burgoyne of Leederville, Western Australia (later Flt Lt); 409815 Flying Officer Percy John Coates of Daylesford, Victoria ( later killed on flying operations over New Britain on 25 November 1943); and 422131 Pilot Officer Herbert Bathurst Chapple of Greenethorpe, New South Wales (later FO).