Group portrait of officers of 8 Squadron RAAF July 1945 at Tadji Base, New Guinea Back Row (left ...

Accession Number	P03522.005
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker	Unknown
Place made	New Guinea1
Date made	July 1945
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of officers of 8 Squadron RAAF July 1945 at Tadji Base, New Guinea
Back Row (left to right):
63117 Flying Officer (FO) Richard Lennard Minifie; 405091 FO Stanley Roberts; 429089 FO Gilbert Rowley Roxburgh Elliott; Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Campbell; 401270 FO Murray Mayer Crawcour; 417131 FO Arthur Lindsay Swalling; 408428 (O6564) FO Clifford Henry Trethewey; 402607 FO Herbert Kingdom Rawle; 405269 FO William John Compagnoni; 263891 Flt Lt Francis Harold Read, Medical Officer; 58431 FO Theodore Harold Hornsby; O3299 Flt Lt Arthur Alexander Burroughs Slight, later MBE; 409561 Flt Lt Alfred Lydom.
Third Row (left to right):
421971 Flt Lt Ronald Ninian Grieve; 419906 Pilot Officer (PO) Thomas Taylor Allen; 401569 Flt Lt Robert Harrington Troon; 402473 Flt Lt Patrick Joseph Gabriel Toohey; 409243 FO Francis Raymond Soden; PO Gibbons; 426458 FO Dudley Norman Griffith; 405469 FO Godfrey Allman Clarke; 414911 Flt Lt John Henry Curtis; 245808 Flt Lt Neil Baylee Smith Hutchison.
Second Row (left to right):
426758 Flt Lt Kenneth Roy Poulson; 409537 PO Kenneth Clement Garing; 416470 FO Frank Viner Webster; 261136 Flt Lt William Percival Gough; 260239 Wing Commander Oliver Blythe Hall; 406259 (O211189) Flt Lt Desmond O’Driscoll; 413589 FO William Winton Hay; 423339 Flt Lt Colin Seccombe Wood; O2419 Flt Lt Alex John Garrick; Flt Lt Archibald Simpson, padre ;FO Mobbs.
Front Row (left to right):
400356 FO Maxwell Hay Proctor; 427029 Flt Lt Victor Shakespear; 413197 FO James Gerard Hudson; 406782 (O56677) Flt Lt Wilfred Albert Green; 120563 FO Robert Roy Gordon Hall; Captain Horne; 16808 Flt Lt William Henry Byrnes; 13984 (O31540) Flt Lt Albert Frederick Edwards.