Collection relating to the service of 432886 Edward Philip Telford Simpson

Accession Number P02531.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Royal Australian Air Force
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Uranquinty
Date made 13 August 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Identity sheet of 36 Course at No. 5 Service Flying Training School (SFTS). These aircrew trainees all have the rank of Aircraftman 2 as denoted by the white flash in their caps. Left to right, back row: 434300 Jack Edward Adams; 428138 Andrews (possibly 429139 Samuel Charles Andrews); 432468 Neville Bruce Armstrong; 434121 Edgar Alan Barsby (killed on operations in the United Kingdom 6 February 1945); 432740 Stephen Kent Biggs; 432444 Gordon Douglas Boyd; 429170 Roderick John McKenzie Boyd; 434313 Bruce Stewart Brinsmead; 434615 Robert Paul Scott Brown (killed on operations in the New Guinea area on 10 August 1944); 434446 Clifford Mervyn Bycroft; 432482 Allan James Casey ( killed on operations in the United Kingdom on 14 January 1945); 434512 Alfred John Cullen; 428956 Alan Nicholas Hopson Davis. Fifth row: 432546 Lindsay George Dickens; 432771 Keith Ralph Doyle; 432495 William Chris Duckworth; 434626 Arthur Reginald Martin Egert; 432775 Bruce Raymond McKevitt Emmerson; 432944 Brian Milton Fallon; 432145 Ronald Ashton Fiveash; 434681 Bruce Gogerly; 434177 Edward Joseph Gralow; 426959 John McPhail Hamlyn; 432791 John Thomas (Butch) Hannan; 432792 David George Harden; 434223 William Robert Hayles (died of illness in Victoria on 6 June 1947). Fourth row: 434356 Colin Henderson; 432197 John Woodhill Holland; 432804 William Charles Horsman; 434135 George Edward Hurworth; 434791 Allen Stewart Jackson ( killed on operations in north west Europe on 27 August 1944); 432518 Edward Hamilton Jacob; 432957 Donald Burke Knudsen; 432208 Ivor Lee Kelleway; 432523 Ronald Lane; 434140 James Thomas Laurie; 432831 John Paterson Lundie; 429120 Harold Franklin Luton; 432527 Norman James Mackay. Third row: 432997 John McDonald; 432540 Gordon Charles McKenna (killed on operations over Germany on 3 February 1945); 432851 Richard McKenzie; 432591 Keith Laurence O'Neill; 434650 Bruce Arthur Oswald; 432562 Bruce Anthony Palme (lost on operations over New Guinea on 23 November 1944); 432563 Keith Edwin Parker; 434651 Noel Gordon Patrick; 434148 Robert Henry Christopher Peut (killed on operations in north west Europe on 30 August 1944); 434759 Edwin Currie Pollard; 434653 Lindsay Gordon Powell; 432264 Brian Augustus Raftery (died in an accident in Wagga Wagga on 27 September 1944); 434804 Arthur Rankine. Second row: 33273 Christian Rasmussen; 432274 Robert martin Roberts; 432976 Struan Birrell Robertson; 429043 Clive John Robinson; 432572 Ronnie Bourne Robinson; 430522 John Roscholler; 434564 Douglas Haig Rowley; 432880 Keith Raymond Sadd; 432273 Douglas Andrew Seale; 432886 Edward Philip Telford Simpson; 434113 Lawrence Elwyn Skerman; 434659 Robert Ernest William Sloan; 432661 John Wallace Smith. Front row: 432587 Francis James Squire; 432589 Edmond MacLeod Stevenson (died on 14 April 1945 in the Netherlands East Indies, after being taken Prisoner of War (POW)); 432631 Norman Olaf Svenson; 27709 Colin Charles Taplin; 434666 Ian Royce Trattles; 432604 Eric Hood Walker; 434689 William Joseph Watson; 426801 Allan Frank Webb; 432607 Raymond Edward White; 423500 Stanley Robert Whitfield; 434311 Frederick Burnett Willis.