Group portrait of members of “Z” Flight, No. 15 Course, Advanced Training Squad, No. 4 Service ...

Accession Number P01877.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Geraldton
Date made c January 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 members of “Z” Flight, No. 15 Course, Advanced Training Squad, No. 4 Service Flying Training School (SFTS), RAAF, held at Geraldton. W.A. between September 1941 and January 1942. The aircraft in the background is an Avro Anson.
Left to Right:
Back row: 406581 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)) Henry Glasgow Spedding-Smith; 406920 LAC (later Flt Lt) Frank Leslie Boyd Craig; LAC John Cameron.
Middle row:406942 LAC (later Flying Officer (FO)) Irwin Hector McDonald (died of illness 17 June 1946); 406839 LAC (later Flt Lt) Norman Brown; 406947 LAC (later Flt Lt) Arthur Hilary Morton; 406983 LAC (later Flt Lt) Mati Martinovich; 406945 (later A51652) LAC (later Warrant Officer (WO)) Keith Robert Milligan; 406864 (later O215081) LAC (later Flt Lt) Arthur Frederick Martin; 406921 (later O5979) LAC (later Flt Lt) Allan James Craze; 406948 LAC (later Flt Lt) Jack Murray; 406937 LAC (later Flt Lt) James Richard Hardey; 406938 LAC (later WO) Herbert Clifford Knapp; Unknown airman; 406914 LAC (later FO) Raymond William Burgess.
Front row: 406971 LAC (later FO) Wrinch Joseph Charles Budd (killed on operations 26 May 1941); 406918 LAC (later Flt Lt) Ronald Henry Cohen; 406973 LAC (later Flt Lt) John Eldon Thomas Cooke; LAC Campbell; 411313 Sergeant (Sgt) James Harry Granger (instructor); 482 Flt Lt (later Squadron Leader) John William Kessey; Sgt Smith (instructor); Sgt (instructor); 406917 LAC (later FO) Kenneth Henry Champion; LAC “Hoop” Hooper; 406736 LAC (later Sgt) William Llewellyn Scanlan (killed on operations 17 December 1941); 406943 LAC (later WO) Murdo Mcleod (died a prisoner of war 11 September 1943). (Donor F Craig).