Signed Graduation portrait

Accession Number P09647.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Queensland, Ipswich, Amberley
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

Group portrait of aircrew trainees. Identified, left to right: back row: 402887 William Sprott; J Anscomb ?(Anscombe); 402764 Francis Leonard Sismey (later died 20 May 1945); 402855 Peter George Faux; M Brill?; 400502 James Maxwell Brady (later 15 OTU RAF, killed 16 January 1942); N? Green; 404786 Noel Messines Toohill (later 207 Squadron RAF, killed 9 January 1942); 402991 James Gordon Werrin; 404702 Hamilton Lewis Maddison (later 217 Squadron RAF, died 30 April 1943); 404700 Noel Percival Hawke; 402848 Flight Sergeant John Terry Bray (lost on operations off Denmark on 29 July 1942); 404623 William Wrixon Boylson (later 643 Squadron RAF, DFC and Bar, killed on 25 June 1944). Second row: 402835 Philip Goodrich Adams; J R? Brown; 404688 Sergeant John Sivyer "Siv" Turnock (later 460 Squadron, killed on operations 13 March 1942); 404701 John Francis Walsh (later 460 Squadron, killed 1 June 1942); ? K A Hearn; 402880 John Milton Pilcher (later DFC and Bar); 404710 Basil James McSharry; 402850 Robert Lachlan London; M Moore (possibly 404111 Molesworth Gerard Moore); D I Fraser; 402945 Arthur William Doubleday (later DSO DFC); 404610 Colin Braidwood Walker; 400715 Vivian Lugton Jackman (later 55 Operational Base Unit, killed 7 May 1943); R C Allcock. Front row: G G Friend; 402894 Robert Lichfield Tresidder (later 460 Squadron, killed 17 February 1942); 402885 Leslie Milton Shephard (later 460 Squadron, killed 29 April 1942); 402511 James J Leahy (later AFC); 402790 Albert George Declerck (later 462 Squadron, killed 23 October 1942); 402857 Benjamin John Gibbons; Sommerville; 402415 Jack Marshall Winchester Stronach; 402897 James Henry Ware (later 460 Squadron, killed 17 February 1942); 402996 Stuart Kennedy Scott (later 32 Squadron RAAF, killed 26 January 1943); 402760 Frederick James Breen (later 460 Squadron, killed on 27 July 1942); 402873 Esmond Mayne McKern; 400742 Arthur Leslie Newton; John ?W McKenzie.