Group portrait of a crew of No. 466 (Halifax) Squadron RAAF standing by, prior to a raid on ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Yorkshire, Leconfield
Accession Number SUK11675
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made United Kingdom: England, Yorkshire, Leconfield
Date made c December 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

Group portrait of a crew of No. 466 (Halifax) Squadron RAAF standing by, prior to a raid on Germany. Shown: 403718 Flight Lieutenant Colin Osborn Chapman of Sydney, NSW (near door in officer¿s cap); 425000 Flight Sergeant (later Pilot Officer) Eric Harry Gaggin of Toowoomba, Qld (lost on operations over Belgium on 13 May 1944) (exact position unknown); 420892 Sergeant (later Flying Officer [FO]) Edmund Hourigan of Paxton, NSW (playing billiards); 419548 FO John Francis Woods of Randwick, NSW (right).