Informal portrait of Royal Australian Airforce Beaufighter crew 414975 Sergeant (Sgt) Colin ...

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Accession Number 015123
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea
Date made 26 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 Royal Australian Airforce Beaufighter crew 414975 Sergeant (Sgt) Colin Esbert Wein, of Gayndah, Queensland, pilot and 21714 Sgt Donald Clarence Kirkwood of Smithfield, NSW, navigator. Both were later promoted to Flight Sergeant and both died as a prisoner of war of the Japanese at Rabaul, New Britain on 5 March 1944.