Australia. September 1941. 405814 Hudson Garth Ainslie RAAF, later of No. 111 Squadron RAF ...

Accession Number P02639.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Australia. September 1941. 405814 Hudson Garth Ainslie RAAF, later of No. 111 Squadron RAF (right) looks at a map with a fellow trainee Bob ?. They are standing beside a Wirraway aircraft. Pilot Officer Ainslie was killed on 2 October 1944 when he was hit by an aircraft which crashed whilst landing at Florence, Italy. He is buried at the Florence British War Cemetery. (Donor P. Laughlin)