Image relating to the service of 422577 Frederick Godfrey Kirkwood RAAF

Accession Number P00009.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Canada: Manitoba, Portage la Prairie
Date made c October 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

Group portrait of members of Course 61 at No 7 Air Observer School. Identified as present, but position unknown: 422414 Ivan Chapple (later No. 463 Squadron RAAF, killed on operations 10 May 1944); Identified from left to right (back row): 422414 Ivan Chapple from Bega, NSW, who was killed during operations with 463 Squadron RAF on 10 May 1944 and is commemorated in Hellemmes-Lille Communal Cemetery in northern France; C E Murphy; Jack Denham; 422477 Flight Sergeant James Wharton Severn Fisher from Fivedock, NSW (lost on operations over Italy on 16 March 1944). Second row: unidentified; 422360 Bruce Andrew Stanley Abbott from Homebush West, NSW, killed on operations on 12 March 1945; 422482 Kenneth William Perry Francis from Roseville, NSW, who was killed on 22 January 1944 during operations over Germany with 467 Squadron RAF and is commemorated in Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery; Roy Rogers, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF); unidentified; Vic Painter RCAF; 422363 Kenneth Mauger Adcock from Sydney, NSW; G Honeyman; 422594 Walter Lawrence, born in Birkenhead, England; 422467 William Thomas Edginton from Ashfield, NSW, who was killed on 25 February 1944 during operations over Germany with 467 Squadron RAF and is commemorated in Durnbach War Cemetery, Bad Tolz, Bayern, Germany. Front row: W Duckworth RAF; 422452 Jack Denham from Port Macquarie, NSW; 422475 Walter Allen Field from Parkes, NSW; 422577 Frederick Godfrey Kirkwood from Sydney, NSW; Frederick John Smith; unidentified; 422462 Kenneth Charles Dyer from Sydney, NSW, who was killed on 15 March 1944 during operations over Germany with 7 Squadron RAF and is buried in Durnbach War Cemetery; 422439 Philip Gordon Croft, born in Paignton, England; 422547 Stanley Donald Taylor, born in Southhampton, England; unidentified; J Duckworth RAF.