Group portrait of RAAF members of Canada 8, Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), prior to their ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Ipswich, Amberley
Accession Number 006470
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Australia: Queensland, Ipswich, Amberley, Australia: Queensland, Ipswich, Amberley
Date made 3 March 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

Group portrait of RAAF members of Canada 8, Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), prior to their embarkation. Left to right, back row: Alexander (Blue) Herschel; unidentified; Les Chippendall of Brisbane, Qld; unidentified; Nugent Walsh of Brisbane, Qld; Ted Holloway, probably 404105 Sergeant Edwin George Holloway (lost over the Mediterannean sea on 15 February 1942). Middle row: Edmund McCormack of Merino Downs, Roma (killed on active service near Cairo); unidentified; Terrance Knot (Paddy) Archer of Rockhampton, Qld; George Wood of Tarragindi, Qld; unidentified. Front row: Noel Cowan; probably 404171 Sergeant Percy Noel Cowan of Brisbane, Qld (killed in an accident in the United Kingdom on 19 August 1941); unidentified; Andy (camp Cassanova) Taylor of NSW; unidentified; unidentified; 404106 Flight Sergeant Murray James Lavery of Brisbane, Qld.