Group portrait of members of No. 15 Squadron, RAF. Back row, from left: Sergeant (Sgt) L A ...

Accession Number P04823.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England
Date made c 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of members of No. 15 Squadron, RAF. Back row, from left: Sergeant (Sgt) L A Hadder, RAF; 1893333 Sgt Leonard Thomas Gearing, RAF; 410150 Sgt (later Pilot Officer) Peter Charles Lewis D'Ombrain, RAAF; 425328 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Arthur Stephen Long, RAAF.
Front row from left: 429738 Flt Sgt Frank Bruce Reid, RAAF; 1602554 Sgt Raymond Geoffrey Norris, RAF; NZ415636 Flt Sgt Laurence Seymour Jamieson, RNZAF.
Gearing, D'Ombrain, Long, Reid, Norris, Jamieson and 425199 Flt Sgt Stanley Arthur Nystrom, RAAF, were later crew members of Lancaster LM121 which was shot down during operations and crashed at Lormaison, France, on 1 June 1944. All were killed.