Group portrait of B Flight, Cadet Pilots, No 1 Flying Training School, many of whom enlisted on 6 ...

Accession Number P05604.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Point Cook
Date made December 1939
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 B Flight, Cadet Pilots, No 1 Flying Training School, many of whom enlisted on 6 November 1939. Identified, left to right, back row: 270530 Edward Hamilton Bell Jackson (later Squadron Leader); 260510 Geoffrey Sattler (later Flight Lieutenant with 13 Squadron, died 12 January 1942); 534 Robert Reginald Raye (later Flight Lieutenant, discharged 16 November 1942); 9193 Peter Leslie Orme Wilson (later Flight Lieutenant, discharged 15 April 1942); 250516 Samuel Richard Creswick Wood (later Squadron Leader, DFC); possibly 648 Richard Raymond Henry Winter (killed in an accident at Tallarook, Victoria on 08 July, 1942); 270525 Arthur Robert Barton (later Flight Lieutenant with 13 Squadron, died 12 January 1942); S C W Munro; 260545 Patrick Randal McDonnell (later Flight Lieutenant with 32 Squadron, died 4 July 1942). Second row: 280519 Neville St Rooke (later Squadron Leader); James Alexander Granville Ryrie (discharged 7 February 1940); G H McArthur; 280522 Colin Clarke Verco (later Squadron Leader); 270529 Colin Cameron Loxton (later Squadron Leader); 270526 Lex D'Arcy Winten (later Squadron Leader); 270521 William John Mitchell (later Squadron Leader); 270531 Thomas Russell Philp (later Wing Commander, DFC). Front row: ; possibly 543 Flying Officer Alan Howard Brewin (killed in an accident over the Jahore Straits on 07 May, 1941; Ralph Vardon Norbury (killed in an accident 6 December 1939); 280541 Gilford James White (later Squadron Leader); 290514 Kenneth Read Smith (later Flight Lieutenant, DFC); A G McLean (possibly 2764 Andrew Clark McLean, later Flight Lieutenant and killed on 16 September 1944); 260535 Ronald Frederick "Torchy" Uren (later Squadron Leader, DFC, discharged 12 December 1944); 260546 Cecil Oswald McKew (later Squadron Leader); 260538 Alfred John Laurant Williams (later Squadron Leader).