Collection relating to the service of 401265 Pilot Officer Fergus Alister Allan

Informal group portrait of three RAAF servicemen with two guides posted in front of the Sphynx and pyramid. Two servicemen ride camels, and 401265 Pilot Officer (PO) Fergus Alister Allan RAAF, identified on the far right, rides a donkey. In letters to his parents, PO Allan describes visiting Egypt in late September/early October 1941 and identifies the other two servicemen pictured as ‘Dennis Cummins, a West Australian,’ and ‘Guy Evans, son of Evan Evans the tent makers in Melbourne.’ PO Allan enlisted to the Royal Australian Air Force on 5 January 1941. He trained as an air observer in South Australia before he went on to do operational training at 70 Operational Training Unit RAF, in Nakuru, Kenya. On 23 January 1942, Pilot Officer Allan was killed in a training accident, alongside 407675 Sergeant Garnet Allenby Hawkins RAAF and 407147 Sergeant George Owen Emery. He is buried at Nakuru North Cemetery, Kenya.