Group portrait of members of No. 21 Beaufighter Pilots Training Course RAAF at Williamtown, NSW. ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Williamtown
Accession Number P02010.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Williamtown
Date made 8 October 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 Williamtown, NSW. Identified from left to right, back row: Flying Officer (FO) A Davies; 408882 Warrant Officer (WO) Francis Edward Smallhorn (accidentally killed at Port Stephens, NSW on 8 November 1944); Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Cameron; FO T. A. Davey; Fight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Baker; 403995 (later O21990) Flt Lt John Ashton; 420004 FO Ralph Sutar Ind; 257659 FO John Victor Hurley or 430330 FO John Victor Hurley. Third row: 270655 Squadron Leader Donald Keith Hamilton (Keith) Gulliver (accidentally killed in Borneo on 10 December 1945); 404607 FO Gilchrist Lundberg; 404607 FO Edward Lawrence Morton; 403835 Flt Lt Rex Seymour Timbury; 408156 FO Charles Ralph Birch; 404818 Flt Lt John Brenton Francis; 418788 Flt Sgt Langley Clements Berry; and 432236 Flt Sgt Lerryn William (Bill) Mutton.
Second row: 434052 Flt Sgt Maxwell Noel Trew; 400847 Flt Sgt Rex Victor Roberts (later DFC); 403308 (later O21981) FO William Rex Berriman; 422585 Flt Sgt Graham Lister Laurence; 415934 FO Donald Cameron or O31095 FO Donald Cameron; 38040 Flt Sgt John Lessels; and 432130 Flt Sgt Cholmondeley Darvall.
Front row: 416426 Flt Lt Raymond Julien Helling (accidentally killed at Williamtown, NSW on 8 November 1944); 430177 Flt Sgt Ivor Russell Le Maistre (accidentally killed at Williamtown, NSW on 13 December 1944); 432894 FO Richard Patrick Scott (killed on operations in Borneo on 11 Jun 1945); 420559 Flt Sgt Lester Cox; 407012 FO Frank William Stokes; and 29099 FO Norman Lewis Parker (accidentally killed at Evans Head, NSW on 10 November 1944).