Group portrait of pilots completing training course 36, at the 31st General Reconnaissance ...

Accession Number P02730.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown Canadian Official Photographer
Place made Canada: Prince Edward Island, Canada: Prince Edward Island
Date made 22 March 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 pilots completing training course 36, at the 31st General Reconnaissance School, at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Identified centre row, second from left, 411750 Sergeant (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)) Jack Geoffrey 'Flak Jack' Cox, of Dungog, NSW, later of 455 Squadron, RAAF, Known to be included but positions unknown: 411768 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt), John Samuel Freeth, of Coogee, NSW, later 455 Squadron (Hampdens), RAAF, who was killed in a flying accident on 24 May 1943; 411492 Flt Lt Roy Howard Graham, of Punchbowl, NSW; 411630 Flying Officer (FO), Leonard Clive Collins, of Tent Hill, NSW; 411477 Warrant Officer (WO) Rhennas Archibald Bell, of Port Augusta, SA; 411645 Flt Lt Arthur William Riding, of West Maitland, NSW; 411640 FO, Herbert Jack Morton, of Geelong, Vic; 411290, Flt Sgt Geoffrey Vincent Courtney, of Balmain, NSW, later of 455 Squadron (Hampdens), RAAF, who was killed in a flying accident on 16 May 1943; probably 411776 Flt Lt Henry Olaf Hansen, of Orange, NSW; probably 411568 Flt Lt Donald Montgomery Wilson, of Sydney, NSW; either Flt Lt John William Moore, of Glascow, Scotland or 415041 FO, John Edward Mallon Moore, of Leederville, WA; 411793 Sgt, Norman John Long, of Young, NSW, later of 1 OTU, Bairnsdale, who was killed in a training accident over Bass Strait on 11 January 1943; 411738 Flt Lt, Reginald Robert Mead Burling, of Warialda, NSW; 411821 Flt Lt Peter McLeod, of Sydney, NSW; 411763 PO, Vincent Bernard Joseph Finn, of Waterloo, NSW, later of 455 Squadron (Hampdens), RAAF, who was missing in action and presumed killed, on 15 August 1943; possibly 411805 FO, Kenneth Norman MacDougall, of Randwick, NSW; 411303 FO, Douglas William Ellis, of Kurri Kurri, NSW.