CANADA. AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN WHO RECENTLY RECEIVED THEIR "WINGS" AT A CANADIAN FLYING TRAINING ...

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Accession Number 008842
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown Canadian Official Photographer
Place made Canada
Date made c 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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CANADA. AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN WHO RECENTLY RECEIVED THEIR "WINGS" AT A CANADIAN FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL. SIR CLIVE BAILLIEU, PROMINENT AUSTRALIAN, WHO IS DIRECTOR OF THE BRITISH PURCHASING COMMISSION, WASHINGTON, PINNED THE "WINGS" ON THEIR TUNICS. LEFT TO RIGHT FRONT ROW: LEADING AIRCRAFTMEN B. D. P. CORBETT- THOMPSON, BRISBANE; 402537 PILOT OFFICER [PO] CLIVE HENRY PHILLIPS MOSMAN NSW, (LOST ON OPERATIONS OVER THE NETHERLANDS ON 6 AUGUST 1942); K. D. BASSOTT, KAROALA, KOMA; 404617 PO GEORGE LESLIE LACHLAN HAY, CHIPPENDALE CITY, SYDNEY, (LOST ON OPERATIONS OVER TURKEY ON 24 OCTOBER 1943); D. G. ANDREWS, CHELMER, BRISBANE; D. H. HANNAH, TAMWORTH; BACK ROW: F. H. MITCHELL, REDFERN SYDNEY; S. I. HANSEN, TOOLBURRA; E. H. BROWN, UPPER UNDULLA TERRA; SQUADRON LEADER J. C. GORDDON, M.C.; SIR CLIVE BAILLIEU; W. G. LEWIS, BARDON W. 4, BRISBANE; 404550 FLIGHT SERGEANT ROBERT NEVILLE LONERGAN, (LOST ON OPERATIONS OVER GERMANY ON 10 MARCH, 1942). EUMUNDI.