'Our class at DAFOE (after the B & G Wings Parade)'. Graduating members of Bombing and Gunnery ...

Accession Number P04201.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Canada: Saskatchewan, Dafoe
Date made c 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

'Our class at DAFOE (after the B & G Wings Parade)'. Graduating members of Bombing and Gunnery School put their best foot forward. Identified are: Sergeant Joe Norman, Chris Edwards (believed to be 404238 Christopher Lynton Edwards, later Warrant Officer 215 Squadron RAF, killed on operations over Burma on 17 May 1943), Johnnie Southwell, Allan Brock, Bill Rice (believed to be 402251 Sergeant Clive William Pryer Rice, later 21 Operational Training Unit, killed 28 January 1942); Bill Weekes (402426 Cecil William Weekes); John Brady (probably 402635 John Bernard Brady later 1 RAF Depot, killed on 17 February 1942); 402526 Walter Hugh (Wally) Lynch; 404325 John Edward (Ted) Baartz (died 10 March 1942); Bert Webb (possibly 406272 Albert Ernest William Webb, later 460 Squadron, died 3 July 1942).