Hand-coloured studio portrait of 422085 Flight Lieutenant John William (Jack) Shipman, 100 ...

Accession Number P03522.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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

Hand-coloured studio portrait of 422085 Flight Lieutenant John William (Jack) Shipman, 100 Squadron RAAF. A Wireless Air Gunner of Summer Hill, NSW, he was killed on operations on 13 March 1945 over New Guinea when the aircraft exploded due to a faulty bomb fuse. The other crew members also killed were 422062 Francis Owen (Frank) Smith of Manilla, NSW, and 415636 Harry John Fowler and 406817 Arthur Geoffrey Waite, both of Perth, WA.