RAAF aircrew carry their kit along the wharf for embarkation on the troop transport Aquitania for ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney
Accession Number 006018
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Department of Information
Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Woolloomooloo
Date made c February 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

RAAF aircrew carry their kit along the wharf for embarkation on the troop transport Aquitania for the voyage to the Middle East. Note: on the print only the censor has omitted the service no. and name from the kit bags. The negative shows front row, second from left, no. 402089; second row, no. 402006 (vertical on the bag), left, no. 404042. 402006 is Flight Sergeant Theodore George Richards who was lost on operations over the Middle East on 02 November, 1942.