A crew of No. 2 Squadron RAAF in front of a Squadron Lockheed Hudson aircraft. Left to right: ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Hughes Airstrip
Accession Number NWA0192
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, Hughes
Date made March 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

A crew of No. 2 Squadron RAAF in front of a Squadron Lockheed Hudson aircraft. Left to right: 416683 Sergeant (Sgt, later Flying Officer [FO]) Cornelius Hastings Kealy, Wireless Air Gunner (WAG) of SA (partly obscured); 414081 Sgt (later Flight Lieutenant [Flt Lt]) Hugh Reilly, WAG of Qld; 250658 Flt Lt (later Squadron Leader [Sqn Ldr]) John Walter Robertson , Pilot, of Melbourne, Vic; 401497 Sgt (later Flying Officer [FO]) Kenneth Albert Duff, Observer, of Victoria; and 416080 Sgt Donald Arthur Emery, WAG of SA. Sgt Emery was killed in operations over Aru Island near Timor on 7th of May, 1943.