INFORMAL PORTRAIT OF 406895 SERGEANT EDGAR SEYMOUR WOOLCOTT (PILOT), OF PERTH, WA, AND 28902 ...

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Accession Number 015120
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby, Ward's Airfield, New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby, Ward's Airfield, Papua: Port Moresby
Date made c June 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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INFORMAL PORTRAIT OF 406895 SERGEANT EDGAR SEYMOUR WOOLCOTT (PILOT), OF PERTH, WA, AND 28902 SERGEANT ROBERT HASENOHR (NAVIGATOR), OF ADELAIDE, SA, WITH THEIR NO 30 (LR/F) SQUADRON, RAAF, BEAUFIGHTER NAMED GOOFY. BOTH MEN LATER DIED AT WARD'S AIRFIELD AFTER THEIR AIRCRAFT A19-93 WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT ON 15 JUNE 1943.