Informal portrait of Flight Lieutenant the Honourable Thomas Walter White DFC VD MP (seated) in ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom
Accession Number P02172.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Period 1950-1959
First World War, 1914-1918
Period 1940-1949
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of Flight Lieutenant the Honourable Thomas Walter White DFC VD MP (seated) in uniform and Flying Officer F.A. Sewell conferring over a paper in the outdoors. White served with the Australian Flying Corps during World War 1 and was Minister for Air and Civil Aviation from 1949 to 1951. In 1952 he was awarded the KBE (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire) while Australian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom. (Formerly Y034) (Original print possibly housed in AWM Archive Store in RAAF AUS box files)