Australia, c. 1942. Studio portrait of 418698 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) A. Bennett RAAF. Flt Sgt ...

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number P01832.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australia, c. 1942. Studio portrait of 418698 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) A. Bennett RAAF. Flt Sgt Bennett served as a navigator and bomb aimer with No. 148 Squadron RAF in the European theatre. He was killed at the age of 29 on 1944-08-05 when his Halifax bomber was shot down near the town of Wojnicz in the Letowice region of Poland. (Original print housed in P run in AWM Archive Store) (Donor L. Swart)

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