Informal portrait of officers of a RAAF Beaufighter Squadron standing in front of one of their ...

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Accession Number 015121
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Papuan Islands, Trobriand Islands, Kiriwina Island
Date made c June 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

Informal portrait of officers of a RAAF Beaufighter Squadron standing in front of one of their aircraft on the tarmac. On the extreme left is the Squadron Commanding Officer, 270 Squadron Leader Bruce Frederick Rose, DFC (later Wing Commander) and second from the left is 266863 Flying Officer Raymond Gordon Wheatley, GM, Squadron Engineer Officer.