Course photographs for No 4 Initial Training School

Place Oceania: Australia, South Australia, Victor Harbor
Accession Number P01405.017
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Frank Boase Studio
Place made Australia: South Australia, Victor Harbor
Date made c November 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

Outdoor group portrait of No 4 Initial Training School, RAAF, Course No 21, “C” Squadron, Flight 14. Identified in the back row, from left to right: 416907 Aircraftman 2 (AC2) Ronald Lindsay Wade (later Leading Aircraftman (LAC)); 409861 AC2 Donald Malcolm Terry (later Flying Officer (FO)); 416899 AC2 Lance Gilbert Stribling (later Corporal (Cpl)); 415389 AC2 Ronald Allan Wray (later Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt)); 415387 AC2 James Henry Skett (later FO); 409862 AC2 Russell James Thomson (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) and died on flying operations over France on 18 November 1943); 409857 AC2 William McDonald Smith (later Flt Sgt); 416912 AC2 Noel Leonard Williams (later discharged on 24 February 1942); 416897 AC2 John Augustine Siebert (later Warrant Officer (WO) and died on flying operations over the Mediterranean Sea on 27 February 1944); 409863 AC2 Reginald Thomas Walker (later FO); and 416911 AC2 Ronald Gifford Welfare (later FO).
Second row from left to right: 409866 AC2 Noel Grant Wilson (later Pilot Officer (PO) and died in an accident in the United Kingdom on 2 February 1944); 409856 AC2 Charles Joseph Sitch (later Flt Lt); 416898 AC2 John Edward Stapleton (later WO and died on flying operations over the Aegean Sea on 3 March 1944); 409864 AC2 George Ronald Gilbert Warne (later FO); 409867 AC2 Raymond Vernon Wood (later FO); E Williams; 416896 AC2 William Robert Neil Shueard (later FO); 416902 AC2 Max Edward Thompson (later O4732 Flt Lt and awarded DFC); 409858 AC2 William Colin Spurr (later Flt Lt and awarded DFC); 416900 AC2 Thomas Hugh Strong (later Flt Lt); and 416910 AC2 Harry Goodwin Waters (later Flt Lt).
Front row from left to right: 409859 AC2 Cyril Edward Stephensen (later PO and died on flying operations over France on 4 May 1944); 409865 AC2 Charles Reginald Whincup (AKA Reginald Charles Whincup, later FO and died on flying operations over Bali, Indonesia on 21 May 1944); 16484 Phillip George Smith (later Sergeant); 416909 AC2 Leith John Warner (later FO and awarded DFC); 416908 AC2 Robert James Wallace (later WO); Flt Sgt J Walsh; 409860 AC2 Ernest Alfred Straughair (later Flt Lt); 415388 AC2 Gordon Robert Williams (later FO); 416904 AC2 Malcolm Ralph Trout (later Flt Sgt and died on flying operations over Germany on 21 January 1944); 416903 AC2 Clifford McPherson Thorpe (later FO); and 416913 AC2 Varley Harold Woolford (later LAC).