Group portrait of sergeants (Sgt) of 52 Operational Training Unit (OTU) in front of an aircraft. ...

Accession Number P02639.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, United Kingdom: England, Gloucestershire
Date made c 17 October 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of sergeants (Sgt) of 52 Operational Training Unit (OTU) in front of an aircraft. Identified from left back row: Sergeant (Sgt) McHardie, RNZAF; Sgt Shephard,RAAF; Sgt Logan, RAAF; Sgt Stewart, RAAF; 405814 Sgt (later Pilot Officer) Hudson Garth Ainslie, RAAF; Sgt Trowbridge, RAAF; Sgt Berg Olsen, Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNAF); Sgt Leif Birk Gilje, RNAF (killed in action on 13 April 1943). Front row: Sgt Haintye, RNAF; Sgt Tryggve Woxen, RNAF; Sgt Hughes, RAAF; Sgt Sandel, RAAF; 437202, Sgt (later Flt Sgt) David Charles Palmer, RAAF, who was killed on operations over Holland on 7 March 1945; Sgt Grant, RAF; Sgt Fredrik Eitzen, RNAF, (killed in action 2 May 1943); Sgt Hauge,RNAF; Sgt Knut Winther, RNAF (killed in a flying accident 17 October 1942 while attached to 52 OTU); Sgt Condon, RAAF. Pilot Officer Ainslie was killed on 2 October 1944 when he was hit by an aircraft which crashed whilst landing at Florence, Italy.