Cairo. 27 July 1945. RAAF married personnel and their wives leaving the RAAF Liaison Office, ...

Accession Number	MEA2300
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Negative
Maker	Le Guay, Laurence Craddock
Place made	Egypt: Cairo
Date made	27 July 1945
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Cairo. 27 July 1945. RAAF married personnel and their wives leaving the RAAF Liaison Office, Cairo, after their final briefing for their homeward journey to Australia on 27 July 1945. Pictured are: 277435 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) W. W. Prentice RAAF and his wife Mrs Prentice, Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF); 407406 Flt Lt R. H. Burden RAAF and Mrs Burden, Auxiliary Territorial Service (British) (ATS); 406264 (or 406464) Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) P. A. Strickland and Mrs Strickland, late MWT; 420368 Flt Lt G. J. Bartholomew and Mrs Bartholomew PM, RAF NS; 437370 Flying Officer (FO) G. M. Townsend and Mrs Townsend, ATS; 20785 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) de la Motte and Mrs de la Motte, WAAS; 411418 FO J. C. Wells and Mrs Wells, ATS; 404341 LAC Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy, WAAF; 400892 Sqn Ldr F. L. Lomas and Mrs Lomas, WAAF.