Group portrait of one of the crews of No. 454 Squadron RAAF, a General Reconnaissance Squadron, ...

Place Middle East
Accession Number MEC1290
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Le Guay, Laurence Craddock
Place made North Africa: Libya, Cyrenaica, Benghazi
Date made c 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 one of the crews of No. 454 Squadron RAAF, a General Reconnaissance Squadron, based in the Western Desert, a Martin Baltimore aircraft behind them. Identified, left to right: 415370 Robert Devon Williams, wireless operator/ air gunner of Bunbury, WA; 415359 John 'Jack' Rowe, navigator of Geraldton, WA; 416940 Arnold William Dawe, pilot of Unley, SA; 416897 John Augustine Siebert, wireless operator/ air gunner of Glenelg, SA. This crew was lost on operations on 27 February 1944.