Group portrait of members of RAAF No.4 Course, Service Flying Training School. All thirty two ...

Group portrait of members of RAAF No.4 Course, Service Flying Training School. All thirty two graduated as pilots with an average age of twenty one to twenty two years. Left to right, back row: 404232 Pilot Officer (PO, later Squadron Leader) Richard Charles Burke, 404228 Sergeant (Sgt, later Flight Lieutenant [Flt Lt]) Roy McDowall Beattie (lost on operations over Borneo on 2 July 1945), Rick Girdler, Sgt Johnnie Hobbs, Sgt Bob Howsan, 404182 Sgt (later Flying Officer [FO]) Harold Fawcett McKay, Sgt John (Jack) Morris and Sgt Jack (Joe) O’Brien. Second row: Sgt Jack Pye, 402258 FO Geoffrey Silva (lost on operations over the Bay of Biscay on 13 June 1943), 426387 FO Ray Stanton Smith, 402316 FO Rolla Maxwell Cooke (killed in an accident in the United Kingdom on 4 November 1941), ‘Lofty Grierson’, 404252 FO Lionel Charles Robert Morris, Len Turner, and PO Terry O’Brien. Third row: 404230 PO (later FO) William David Blackstock (lost on operations over the Mediterranean Sea on 15 June 1942), PO Jack Broad, Sgt Lex Hollingworth, 400226 PO (later Flt Lt) Alan Frederick Howell (lost on operations in the Middle East on 7 September 1942), Sgt Doug Jack (likely 404248 Douglas Gordon Jack, lost on operations over the North Sea on 16 December 1941), Sgt Wally McLelland, Sgt Gerard (Gerry) Poulton, and Sgt John Shannon. Front row: 404434 Sgt (later PO) Allan John Slaughter (killed in an accident in the United Kingdom on 16 July 1943), 404268 Sgt (later Warrant Officer) Brian James Treloar, 402268 Sgt (later Flt Lt) Sydney Thomas Wickham, 127370 Sgt (later FO) Thomas Dann Freeman, 404249 Sgt Hardy Caldwell Kerr (lost on operations in the United Kingdom on 29 January 1942), 404253 Sgt (later Flt Lt) Graham Victor Mountseer, 402396 Sgt (later Flt Lt) Stuart Walter Reilly, and 404269 Sgt (later FO) Gordon Russell Tweedale. (Original print is housed in the AWM Archive Store).