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