Group portrait of participants at the passing out of No 7 Pilots' Course at RAAF Point Cook, ...

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Accession Number P00956.019
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Group portrait of participants at the passing out of No 7 Pilots' Course at RAAF Point Cook, Victoria. Identified in the back row, from left to right: Leading Aircraftmen 408074 Noel Sherrin Geappen (died 16 February 1942 on operations over Sumatra); 407450 Frank Kenneth Smith (died 8 August 1943 in an accident at The Rock, NSW);408075 Roswell Aubrey Headlam (died 24 January 1942 in an accident in Burma); 407315 Arthur Penn Boucaut; Dixon; 407319 Dudley George Eve; 408090 Ronald Albert Heath Smith; 407264 Bevan Lotwych West; 407471 Laurence Roy Watson; 407404 Maurice Arthur Blake; 407399 Alan Wayne Archer; 407016 William Keith Bolitho; 407313 Gavin Anderson Atkinson; 407442 John Norman Muir McFarlane; McClure; and 407329 Eric Albert Magor (died 19 November 1941 on operations over the Middle East). Centre row: Leading Aircraftmen 407431 Ronald Gordon Howland; 407463 Bryce Teasdale Stapledon; 407400 William Edwin Barclay; 407336 Lionel Henry Peake; Newman; 407477 Dennis de Courcy Wilson; 407467 Robert Ward Threlfall; 407398 David Searle Ambrose (died 23 May 1942 in an accident in Tamworth, NSW); 04404 Maxwell Osman Carr; 407439 Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Arthur Kirk (killed in an accident over Borneo on 15 September 1945); 407475 Rex Malcolm Whitburn; 407405 Maurice Everest Bridgland (died 28 October 1942 in an accident in the Gulf of Aden); 407316 Robert Bruce Cock; 407435 John Evan Jenkins (died 21 September 1942 in an accident in Cootamundra, NSW); 407449 Colin Henry O'Loughlin; 407347 John Harry Hayward Williams; and 408856 Flying Officer Christopher Vincent Madigan (lost on operations over New Guinea on 15 November 1945. Front row: Leading Aircraftmen Hewitt; 407433 Lilini Sidney Jacobs; Collins; 400643 John Allan Burrage (died 21 February 1942 on operations over Sumatra); 407448 David Osborn Nightingale; 407455 Albert James Verco Riggs; Adams; 407468 Murray Edgar Towill; 407429 George Stacey Hodges; 407452 Douglas Garfield Orchard; 407446 Maxwell Weynton Nairn; 408078 Frank Deryck Ward (died 5 October 1941 on operations over the Middle East); 407447 Wilfred Stafford Needham; 407312 Rowell Wesley Amery; 407469 Peter Robinson Vickery; 407476 Donald William Wickes (died 15 April 1944 on operations over South West Europe).