The Right Honourable Mr Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, during a visit to 467 (Lancaster) ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Lincolnshire, Waddington
Accession Number UK1315
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Place made United Kingdom: England, Lincolnshire, Waddington
Date made 21 May 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

The Right Honourable Mr Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, during a visit to 467 (Lancaster) Squadron, RAAF in the UK, with members of the crew of a Lancaster prior to their take-off for a raid on the Marshalling Yards at Tours. Identified, from left to right: 414978 Flight Lieutenant (Fl Lt) G Abbott RAAF, navigator of Kedron, Qld; 777741 Sergeant (Sgt) H Levy, flight engineer of Rhodesia; 418515 Fl Lt Harry James Cole Bentley (later DFC), RAAF, mid upper gunner; 416931 Flying Officer (FO) C L Chalk RAAF, wireless operator of Keith, SA; 626891 Sgt T McFarlane RAF, rear gunner of Dundee Scotland; Fl Sgt 'Snowy' Craven (possibly RAF), bomb aimer; the Right Honorable John Curtin; 420771 FO William Mackay (later DFC), RAAF, pilot, of Newcastle, NSW.