LINCOLNSHIRE, ENGLAND. 1943-09-16. FLIGHT SERGEANT GOULEVITCH, CAPTAIN OF A LANCASTER AIRCRAFT OF ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Lincolnshire, Binbrook
Accession Number UK0535
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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LINCOLNSHIRE, ENGLAND. 1943-09-16. FLIGHT SERGEANT GOULEVITCH, CAPTAIN OF A LANCASTER AIRCRAFT OF NO. 460 SQUADRON RAAF, BASED AT RAF STATION BINBROOK, WHOSE NOVEL HEADGEAR CAUSES SOME AMUSEMENT AMONG THE MEMBERS OF HIS CREW. THE TOP HAT, WHICH HE "ACQUIRED" IN DONCASTER, HAS BEEN ON EIGHTEEN OPERATIONAL TRIPS WITH HIM. LEFT TO RIGHT: SERGEANT (SGT) J. MCKENZIE, ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF); 414349 FLIGHT SERGEANT (F SGT) K. W. HALSTEAD, TOWNSVILLE, QLD; SGT H. GORELL, RAF; 414344 F SGT A. G. ELWING, ROCKHAMPTON, QLD; 407391 SGT (later Flight Sergeant) R. A. MOYNAGH, ADELAIDE, SA (LOST ON OPERATIONS OVER UK ON 16 DECEMBER 1943); 414019 F SGT J. GOULEVITCH, TOWNSVILLE, QLD.