Graves of 404353 Flying Officer William Martin Murphy and 407192 Flight Lieutenant Thomas ...

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Accession Number P00983.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Graves of 404353 Flying Officer William Martin Murphy and 407192 Flight Lieutenant Thomas Harrison Bourke, both of 460 Squadron, RAAF, in the cemetery at Viroflay, between Paris and Versailles. Both airmen were killed along with two other crew (407285 Flight Sergeant [Flt Sgt] R P Davis [Wireless Operator Air Gunner] and 407280 Flt Sgt B G P Balleine [Front Gunner]) while on a mission in a Wellington aircraft to bomb Gennevilliers, France on 29/30 May, 1942. The crosses are the original grave markers. (Donor: M. Edwards)