Group portrait of the members of the No 4 Course, Empire Central Flying School (ECFS) Royal Air ...

Accession Number P03880.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, United Kingdom: England, Wiltshire
Date made February 1943
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 the members of the No 4 Course, Empire Central Flying School (ECFS) Royal Air Force (RAF) at Hullavington. Identified, left to right: Back row: Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Howard; Flt Lt Holden; Flt Lt Maun; Flt Lt Holmes; Flt Lt Shipman. Third row: Flt Lt Malec; Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Remshaw-Dibb; Sqn Ldr Adderley; Sqn Ldr Tribe; Sqn Ldr McGiffin; Sqn Ldr Howard Fortescue Marcou AFC, (Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF); Sqn Ldr Warner; Sqn Ldr Phillips. Second row: Sqn Ldr Mitchell; 412725 Sqn Ldr Herbert Frank Slade, (later DSO, DFC, USA Bronze Star), of Sydney, NSW (originally from Penarth, England); Flt Lt Davison; Sqn Ldr Ferguson; Sqn Ldr Terry; Sqn Ldr Miller; Sqn Ldr Smith; Flt Lt Jacklin; Lieutenant McWhirter (British Army). Front row: Sqn Ldr Stovel; 465 Sqn Ldr Kevin Herbert Springbett, RAAF, of Lyndoch, SA; Sqn Ldr Martin; Major Britz (British Army); Wing Commander (Wing Cdr) Harger, (RAF); Wing Cdr Berven, (RAF), OC No1 IFS in 1945; Lieutenant Colonel Bosch (British Army); Sqn Ldr Wickett; Sqn Ldr Bouchier; Sqn Ldr Anthony Allan Joseph Shelfoon, AFC, RCAF, appointed Chief Flying Instructor, Empire Central Flying School in December 1943.

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