Studio portrait of 423845 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Gordon McMaster, RAAF, of Burwood, NSW ...

Accession Number P03251.015
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c 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

Studio portrait of 423845 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Gordon McMaster, RAAF, of Burwood, NSW (orignally of Bogun Gate, NSW). A lathe worker prior to enlisting in Sydney, NSW, on 18 July 1942, he trained as a rear gunner and embarked for England to join 15 Squadron, RAF. He was fatally wounded during his tenth Lancaster flight over Germany on 20 February 1944, aged 25. He is buried at North Cemetery, Jean Field, near Leipzig, Germany.

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