Group portrait of members of No. 21 Beaufighter Pilots Training Course RAAF at Sale, Victoria. ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Sale
Accession Number P02010.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made Australia: Victoria, Sale
Date made 24 August 1944
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 members of No. 21 Beaufighter Pilots Training Course RAAF at Sale, Victoria. Identified from left to right, back row: 257659 Flying Officer (FO) John Victor Hurley or 430330 FO John Victor Hurley; 420004 FO Ralph Suttor Ind; 416426 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Raymond Julien Helling (accidentally killed at Williamtown, NSW on 8 November 1944); 419693 (later A35243) Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) James Lambert Hainsworth; 403995 (later O21990) Flt Lt John Ashton; 403308 (later O21981) FO William Rex Berriman; 418788 Flt Sgt Langley Clemens Berry; and 418057 Flt Sgt Allan Austin Byrne.
Third row: 408156 FO Charles Ralph Birch; 415934 FO Donald Cameron or O31095 FO Donald Cameron; 432130 Flt Sgt Cholmondeley Darvall; 404818 Flt Flt Lt Rex Seymour Timbury.
Second row: 29099 FO Norman Lewis Parker (accidentally killed at Evans Head, NSW on 10 November 1944); 436219 Pilot Officer Allan Wesley West; 434052 Flt Sgt Maxwell Noel Trew; 400847 Flt Sgt Rex Victor Roberts (later DFC); 422585 Flt Sgt Graham Lister Laurence; 430177 Flt Sgt Ivor Russell Le Maistre (accidentally killed at Williamtown, NSW on 13 December 1944); 38040 Flt Sgt John Lessels; and 406079 FO Edward Lawrence Morton.
Front row: 404607 FO Gilchrist Lundberg; 2764 Flt Lt Andrew Clark McLean (accidentally killed at Bairnsdale, Victoria on 16 September 1944); 432236 Flt Sgt Lerryn William (Bill) Mutton; 404008 FO Martin Edward Ryan; 432894 FO Richard Patrick Scott (killed on operations in Borneo on 11 June 1945); 407012 FO Frank William Stokes; O428 FO Colin Charles Taplin; and O5811 FO Raymond Alexander Ellwood Taylor.