Group portrait of Flight 14, ‘C’ Squadron, Course 31 of No 4 Initial Training School (4 ITS), ...

Accession Number P04902.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Frank Boase Studio
Place made Australia: South Australia, Victor Harbor
Date made 1942
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 Flight 14, ‘C’ Squadron, Course 31 of No 4 Initial Training School (4 ITS), RAAF, Victor Harbor (Harbour). Identified from left to right, back row: 417783 Charles David Barnett; 427625 Reginald George Willis; 417969 Justin Herbert Miller; 427621 Miles Gerard McCarthy; 417960 Charles Robert Kelly; 419504 Geoffrey Alec Sim; 417975 Allan Gray Parry; R M Niendorff; 417976 Oswald Charles Pederick; 417965 John Bernard McManus, later of 466 Squadron RAAF (who received the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) on 13 April 1945); 417974 Norman Frederick Page. Second row: 417961 Conrad Edmond Kumnick; 417909 Roy Clifford Scott; 417966 Colin Robert McMurdo (later of 461 Squadron RAAF who received the Distinguished Flying Medal (DFM) on 10 October 19440; 417977 Lloyd Stanley Potts; 418683 Albert Gordon Russell; 417979 Albert Ernest Stacy; 417962 Percy Ray Lanyon (later of 460 Squadron RAF who received the DFC on 20 February 1945); 427623 David Archibald Odgers (later of 1 Wireless and Gunnery School and killed in an accident on 21 March 1943); 417968 Daniel James Gordon Masters; 417986 Frederick Yates; 418682 Louis Jack Rosenberg; 417983 Richard Hugh Waters. Third row: 417980 Francis Henry Stainer; O41546 (417964) Francis Leslie McMahon; 417984 Ross Henry Whittaker; 417978 Ian Stuart Smith (later of 1652 Communications Unit, who received the DFC on 25 September 1945); 418686 Alan Charles Sellwood (later of 15 Squadron RAF, who received the DFC on 25 May 1945); 427624 Francis Edward Sander; 417981 Colin James Mitchell (later of 582 Squadron RAF and killed in an accident near Weald, England, on 23 September 1944); 417973 Kevin O’Connell; 418678 Jack Arthur Trethowan Reeves; 417982 Walter Alexander Stewart; 417963 Kenneth Moncrieff Lester; 418684 Daniel Joseph Ryan; 417985 Eric William Hadley Wood. Front row: 417967 Rodney James Martindale; 417971 Brian John Mitchell; 116456 Colin Allen Roberts; 418688 Douglas Arthur Solomons; 419502 George Robert Colquhoun Lowe (later of 148 Squadron RAF, and killed in action over Yugoslavia on 4 January 1945); 419506 James Roy Macaulay; possibly 26272 Sergeant Cyril Frederick Walter Rice; 419499 Bertram Howie Macaulay; 419503 Wilfred Shapcott (later of RAF West Freugh and killed in an accident at Scotland on 6 September 1943); 407973 Kingsley Eric Prior (later of 29 Operational Training Unit, who received the DFC on 20 July 1945); 418687 Ian Gregory Mason; 29642 Kenneth Trethowan Marsh.