Group portrait of RAAF members who attended the No. 9 Observer Advanced Flying Unit, (9 (O)AFU), ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, Wales
Accession Number P01606.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Date made June 1943
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 RAAF members who attended the No. 9 Observer Advanced Flying Unit, (9 (O)AFU), RAF training course at Llandwrog, Wales, between 15 June 1943 and 27 July 1943.
Left to Right:
Back row: 422563 Sergeant (Sgt) (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)) Henry George Honeyman; 422433 Sgt (later Flying Officer (FO)) Laurence Drummond Coutts; 422278 Sgt (later FO) Keith Alexander Lodge, (awarded Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) 20 February 1945; 422443 Sgt (later FO) David Macdonald Cruden, (awarded DFC 25 May 1945); 422146 Sgt (later FO) Kenneth Jack Dowsett, (awarded DFC 17 November 1944); 422559 Sgt (later Flight Sergeant) Austin John Hogan, (accidently killed 19 August 1943).
Front row: 421799 Sgt (later FO) William Edward Foley; 425925 Sgt (later FO) Albert George Field; 422649 Sgt (later Warrant Officer) Rolf William Mann; Sgt John Henry.