A group of pilots of No. 452 (Spitfire) Squadron based at an RAF Station, outside their ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Croydon, Kenley
Accession Number SUK10025
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown British Official Photographer
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, Croydon, Kenley
Date made c September 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A group of pilots of No. 452 (Spitfire) Squadron based at an RAF Station, outside their operations room. Left to right: 400163 Sergeant (Sgt, later Flight Lieutenant [Flt Lt]) Clive Newton Wann; 400157 Flt Lt John Robertson Ross (killed in a Spitfire accident at Schofields NSW on 20 October 1942); 400942 Sgt William James Smith (sitting) (lost on operations over Pas de Calais area in France on 9 May 1942); 404664 Sgt Francis Gilbert Harper (lost on operations over the English Channel on 15 February 1942); 404726 Sgt Malcolm Wallace Hamilton (lost on operations off France on 9 March 1942); 404272 Sgt (later Flt Lt) William Jefferson Wilkinson; 404087 Sgt (later Flt Lt) Raife James Cowan.