Members of No. 5 Course Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) at No. 3 Elementary Flying Training ...

Accession Number P00631.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Essendon
Date made 1940
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Members of No. 5 Course Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) at No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) meet the English entertainer Noel Coward. Left to right: 400396 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Horace Spencer Wills (Bill) Fordyce; LAC Les Hancock (probably 400368 Leslie Pierson Hancock, later Pilot Officer 1651 Conversion Unit RAF, killed on operations over Germany on 29 July 1942); unidentified; LAC Davies; Noel Coward; unidentified; unidentified; LAC John White; LAC Smith. (Cibachrome copy in AWM Private Records Collection at PR85/353)