| Place | Middle East |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | MEC0793 |
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Negative |
| Maker |
Le Guay, Laurence Craddock |
| Date made | c May 1943 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Informal portrait of officers relaxing in the Officers Mess of No. 451 (Hurricane) Squadron RAAF. ...
Description
Informal portrait of officers relaxing in the Officers Mess of No. 451 (Hurricane) Squadron RAAF. Identified from left to right: 402326 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Charles Edward Edmondson DSO from Sydney, NSW (later Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr)); 402694 Pilot Officer (PO) William Edward Goldman DFC from Sydney (later Flt Lt); 402317 Flying Officer (FO) Clifton Cornall from Sydney; 402365 Flt Lt Edgar Exley Kirkham, MID from Sydney (later Sqn Ldr); 402404 Flying Officer (FO) Harold Rowland Rowlands DFC (later Flt Lt, killed in operations with the RAAF while flying from RAF Station Abbukir in the Middle East on 25 March 1944); 400827 PO Walter Kenneth Watts DFC (later Flt Lt). FO Cornall, who was on his way home to Australia, paid a visit to fellow members of the first Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) who trained in South Rhodesia in 1940. FO Cornall was shot down early in 1941 and spent twelve months in an Italian prisoner of war (POW) camp before he was repatriated back to Australia because of a badly wounded knee. He was subsequently killed in a flying accident at No. 3 Wireless and Air Gunnery School in Maryborough, Queensland on 12 January 1944.