Trainees from New South Wales provided an overwhelming majority when a class composed of ...

Trainees from New South Wales provided an overwhelming majority when a class composed of Australians graduated as RAAF Leading Aircraftmen (LAC) from the No. 2 Service Flying Training School of the Royal Canadian Air Force at Uplands, Ottawa. Left to right, Front row: 403092 LAC (later Flight Sergeant [Flt Sgt]) Robert George Kenyan Holden (lost on operations over Germany on 31 May 1942), 403446 LAC (later Flight Lieutenant [Flt Lt]) George James Meldrum, 403461 LAC (later Flt Lt) Russell Vincent Baxter, 402822 LAC (later Flt Sgt) Frederick George Potter (lost on operations over the Middle East on 1 September 1942), 403345 LAC (later Flt Lt) Peter Booth Jones, LAC R. Armstrong, 403149 LAC (later Sgt) Frederick Joseph Ryan (lost on operations over the Middle East on 16 June 1942), 403366 LAC (later Sgt) John Dudley Newick (lost on operations over the Middle East on 27 July 1942). Back row: 403143 LAC (later Sgt) Roger Bede Murphy (killed in an accident in the United Kingdom on 3 January 1942), 403159 LAC (later Pilot Officer) Allenby Leslie Baker (killed in an accident in the United Kingdom on 4 January 1942), 408133 LAC (later Flying Officer) Alan Albert Waddell (lost on operations over Germany on 31 May 1942), 403355 LAC (later Sgt) Rex Joseph Marre (killed in an accident in the United Kingdom on 15 March 1942), 403358 LAC (later Flt Lt) Ian Sutherland Morse, 403437 LAC (later Flt Sgt) Jack Irvine Thompson (lost on operations over the Middle East on 15 February 1942), 404924 LAC (later Flt Sgt) Lawrence Keith Day (killed in an accident in India on 3 December 1942), 403127 LAC (later Squadron Leader) Colin Thompson Doudy, 403431 LAC (later Sgt) Finlay Donald Mcleod (lost on operations over the Netherlands on 26 March 1942), 403299 LAC (later Warrant Officer) Colin Albert Alt.