Group portrait of officers of No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), at their aerodrome. ...

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Accession Number E02495
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Nord Pas de Calais, Clairmarais
Date made 10 June 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of officers of No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), at their aerodrome. Identified from left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Cecil Roy Burton; Lt Russell Fern McRae RAF; Lt Charles Smith Scobie RAF; Lt John Sandfield McDonald Browne RAF (died in France on 27 June 1918); Lt Eric Vincent Culverwell RAF; Lt Gordon Shepherd Jones-Evans RAF; Lt Alexander Thompson Heller; Lt Oscar Bede Ramsay RAF; Lt John Charles Foster Wilkinson RAF, MC.
Second row: Lt Robert Colenso Wilson RAF; Lt Edward Castellain Crosse RAF; Lt Roy Sly; Lt Alexander Hamilton Lockley; Lt R. Moore; Lt Roy George Smallwood; Lt [Elwyn] Roy King DFC; Lt Hiram Frank Davison RAF; Lt W A Armstrong RAF (possibly Alfred William Armstrong); Lt Roy Harold Youdale.
Front row: Lt Vincent George Moxey Sheppard RAF; Lt Herbert Gilles Watson DFC; Captain (Capt) Edgar James McCloughry DSO DFC and Bar; Major (Maj) Wilfred Ashton McCloughry DSO MC DFC (brother of Capt McCloughry); Capt Arthur Henry Cobby DSO DFC and two Bars (later an Air Commodore, Second Word War, awarded a CBE, the George Medal and the United States Medal of Freedom); Maj Frederick Inglis Tanner RAF; Lt Jack Henry Weingarth (died in an accident in United Kingdom on 4 February 1919).