Portrait of 400232 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) David William McCormack, RAAF, DFC and Bar, of No. ...

Place Asia: India
Accession Number SUK12992
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made India
Date made c December 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Portrait of 400232 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) David William McCormack, RAAF, DFC and Bar, of No. 615 Squadron RAF. Sqn Ldr McCormack, from Seddon, Vic, was Commanding Officer of 615 Squadron, known as 'Churchill's Own'. He was killed in an aircraft accident in India on 10 August 1944, and is buried in the Calcutta Bhowanipore Military Cemetery, Kolkata, India.