General Sir William Riddell Birdwood conversing with Anzac pilots inside the hangar at the ...

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Accession Number D00427
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original negative other
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Gloucestershire, Minchinhampton
Date made March 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

General Sir William Riddell Birdwood conversing with Anzac pilots inside the hangar at the aerodrome. Left to right, back to camera: Lieutenant (Lt) Lees, Australian Flying Corps (AFC); two unidentified; W. R. Sheppherd.
Facing camera: General Birdwood; Major Roy Cecil Phillipps MC DFC, Commanding 6th Training Squadron; Captain L. H. Holden MC, 6th Training Squadron (white flying suit); Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) W. O. Watt OBE, Commanding 1st Wing AFC; Lt Col Horace Clowes Brinsmead MC, Staff officer for aviation; Major R. S. Brown, Commanding 5th Training Squadron; two unidentified (obscured).